Joshua 24:25
Good News Translation
So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.

New Revised Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua helped Israel make an agreement with the LORD that day at Shechem. Joshua made laws for Israel

New American Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.

made

Exodus 15:25 But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

Exodus 24:3,7,8 So Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice: We will do all the words of the Lord, which he hath spoken. . . .

Deuteronomy 5:2,3 The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. . . .

Deuteronomy 29:1,10-15 These are the words of the covenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab: beside that covenant which he made with them in Horeb. . . .

2 Kings 11:17 And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and the people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the king and the people.

2 Chronicles 15:12,15 And he went in to confirm as usual the covenant, that they should seek the Lord the God of their fathers with all their heart, and with all their soul. . . .

2 Chronicles 23:16 And Joiada made a covenant between himself and all the people, and the king, that they should be the people of the lord.

2 Chronicles 29:10 Now therefore I have a mind that we make a covenant with the Lord the God of Israel, and he will turn away the wrath of his indignation from us.

2 Chronicles 34:29-32 And he called together all the ancients of Juda and Jerusalem. . . .

Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we ourselves make a covenant, and write it, and our princes, our Levites, and our priests sign it.

Nehemiah 10:28,29 And the rest of the people, priests, Levites, porters, and singing men, Nathinites, and all that had separated themselves from the people of the lands to the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters. . . .

in Shechem

Joshua 24:1,26 And Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel in Sichem, and called for the ancients, and the princes and the judges, and the masters: and they stood in the sight of the Lord: . . .

Context
Choose Whom You will Serve
24And the people said to Joshua: We will serve the Lord our God, and we will be obedient to his commandments. 25Joshua therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.26And he wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the Lord: and he took a great stone, and set it under the oak that was in the sanctuary of the Lord.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:25
But he cried to the Lord, and he shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, they were turned into sweetness. There he appointed him ordinances, and judgments, and there he proved him,

Exodus 24:8
And he took the blood and sprinkled it upon the people, and he said: This is the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.

2 Kings 11:17
And Joiada made a covenant between the Lord, and the king, and the people, that they should be the people of the Lord; and between the king and the people.

Joshua 24:24
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