Joshua 24:25

WEB

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

KJV

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Commentary

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day,.... Proposing to them what was most eligible, and their duty t o do, and they agreeing to it, this formally constituted a covenant, of which they selves were both parties and witnesses: and set statute and an ordinance in Shechem; either made this covenant to have the nature of a statute and ordinance binding upon them, or repeated and renewed the laws of Moses, both moral and ceremonial, which had been delivered at Mount Sinai, and now, upon this repetition in Shechem, might be called a statute and ordinance there.