Joshua 24:27

Joshua declares the stone a witness against the people, since it has 'heard' all Yahweh's words, lest they deny their God. It matters as a vivid reminder of accountability to the covenant.

Cross-references · 19

• Luke 19:40He answered them, “I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out.”
• Josh 22:34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God.”
• Matt 10:33But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
• Deut 31:26“Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of Yahweh’s covenant your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
• Josh 22:27–28but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in Yahweh.’
• Isa 1:2Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: “I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
• Deut 31:21It will happen, when many evils and troubles have come on them, that this song will testify before them as a witness; for it will not be forgotten out of the mouths of their descendants; for I know their ways and what they are doing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”
• 2 Tim 2:12–13If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us.
• Deut 32:1Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
• 1 Sam 7:12Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, “Yahweh helped us until now.”
• Job 31:23For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
• Prov 30:9lest I be full, deny you, and say, ‘Who is Yahweh?’ or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
• Gen 31:44–52Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you.”
• Deut 31:19“Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel. Put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
• Deut 4:26I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from off the land which you go over the Jordan to possess it. You will not prolong your days on it, but will utterly be destroyed.
• Deut 30:19I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse. Therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your descendants;
• Hab 2:11For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
• Rev 3:8“I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn’t deny my name.

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