They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
Parallel translations
- KJV And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
- BSB So they answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.
- NKJV So they answered Joshua, saying, “All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
- NASB They answered Joshua, saying, “All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
- NLT They answered Joshua, “We will do whatever you command us, and we will go wherever you send us.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Titus 3:1Remind them to be in subjection to rulers and to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready for every good work,
- Deut 5:27Go near, and hear all that Yahweh our God shall say, and tell us all that Yahweh our God tells you; and we will hear it, and do it.”
- Rom 13:1–5Let every soul be in subjection to the higher authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those who exist are ordained by God.
- 1 Pet 2:13–15Therefore subject yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;
- Num 32:25The children of Gad and the children of Reuben spoke to Moses, saying, “Your servants will do as my lord commands.
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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.
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