Verse 10

Joshua 24:10

Bible in Basic English

10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וְ/לֹ֥א אָבִ֖יתִי לִ/שְׁמֹ֣עַ לְ/בִלְעָ֑ם וַ/יְבָ֤רֶךְ בָּרוֹךְ֙ אֶתְ/כֶ֔ם וָ/אַצִּ֥ל אֶתְ/כֶ֖ם מִ/יָּדֽ/וֹ
English Translation
And I did not agree to listen to Balaam, and he blessed you with a blessing, and I rescued you from his hand.
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 24 Context
1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of... Focus ↗
2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God (Elohim) of Israel: In t... Focus ↗
3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of... Focus ↗
4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his ch... Focus ↗
5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took... Focus ↗
6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fat... Focus ↗
7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them... Focus ↗
8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you,... Focus ↗
9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam,... Focus ↗
10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him.
11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites... Focus ↗
12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with you... Focus ↗
13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now... Focus ↗
14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped b... Focus ↗
15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servant... Focus ↗
16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods; Focus ↗
17 For it is the Lord our God (Elohim) who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out o... Focus ↗
18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be... Focus ↗
19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God... Focus ↗
20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against y... Focus ↗
21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. Focus ↗
22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision... Focus ↗
23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God (Elohim... Focus ↗
24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God (Elohim), and we will giv... Focus ↗
25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. Focus ↗
26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God (Elohim); and he to... Focus ↗
27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the wo... Focus ↗
28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage. Focus ↗
29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he... Focus ↗
30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country... Focus ↗
31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were s... Focus ↗
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth... Focus ↗
33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hi... Focus ↗