Joshua 24:20
Modern Translations
New International Version
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you."

New Living Translation
If you abandon the LORD and serve other gods, he will turn against you and destroy you, even though he has been so good to you.”

English Standard Version
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.”

Berean Study Bible
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”

New American Standard Bible
If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and destroy you after He has done good to you.”

NASB 1995
"If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you."

NASB 1977
“If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”

Amplified Bible
If you do abandon (reject) the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume and destroy you after He has done you good.”

Christian Standard Bible
If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after he has been good to you.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, He will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy you, after He has been good to you.""

Contemporary English Version
If you turn your backs on the LORD and worship the gods of other nations, the LORD will turn against you. He will make terrible things happen to you and wipe you out, even though he had been good to you before.

Good News Translation
and if you leave him to serve foreign gods, he will turn against you and punish you. He will destroy you, even though he was good to you before."

GOD'S WORD® Translation
If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you. He will destroy you, although he has been so good to you."

International Standard Version
If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign deities, then he will turn and do you harm, consuming you after all the good he has done for you."

NET Bible
If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."
Classic Translations
King James Bible
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

New King James Version
If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good.”

King James 2000 Bible
If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after that he has done you good.

New Heart English Bible
If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after he has done you good."

World English Bible
If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

American King James Version
If you forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he has done you good.

American Standard Version
If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

A Faithful Version
If you forsake the LORD and serve strange gods. Then He will turn and do you harm, and destroy you after He has done you good."

Darby Bible Translation
If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

English Revised Version
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Webster's Bible Translation
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
If yee forsake the Lorde and serue strange gods, then he will returne and bring euill vpon you, and consume you, after that hee hath done you good.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Yf ye forsake the Lorde and serue straunge goddes, he will turne and do you euill, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
But yf ye forsake the LORDE, and serue a straunge god, then shall the LORDE turne him, and do you euell, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When you forsake YHWH, and have served gods of a stranger, then He has turned back and done harm to you, and consumed you, after that He has done good to you.”

Young's Literal Translation
When ye forsake Jehovah, and have served gods of a stranger, then He hath turned back and done evil to you, and consumed you, after that He hath done good to you.'

Smith's Literal Translation
If ye shall forsake Jehovah and serve strange gods, and he turned back and did evil to you, and finished you after that he did good to you.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

Catholic Public Domain Version
If you leave behind the Lord, and you serve foreign gods, he will turn himself, and he will afflict you, and he will overthrow you, after all the good that he has offered to you.”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Will you forsake LORD JEHOVAH and will you serve other foreign gods of the land, and will LORD JEHOVAH turn to do evil to you and will he consume you after he did good to you?”

Lamsa Bible
If you forsake the LORD and serve strange gods of the land, then the LORD will turn and do you harm, and consume you after having been good to you.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that He hath done you good.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Whensoever ye shall forsake the Lord and serve other gods, then he shall come upon you and afflict you, and consume you, because he has done you good.
















Joshua 24:19
Top of Page
Top of Page