Joshua 24:15 · WEB
“If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."”
— Joshua 24:15
Speaker
Joshua
Era
Conquest (~1400 BC)
Emotion
deciding
Type
challenge
Emotional genome
Comfort power
Quotability
Memorability
Crisis relevance
Standalone
Commandchoicecommitmentloyalty
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