Joshua 24:23

Now therefore put away, said he,.... Which last words are rightly supplied, for they are the words of Joshua:

the strange gods which are among you; not their private notions and secret sentiments…

Now therefore put away - As you have promised to reform, begin instantly the work of reformation. A man's promise to serve God soon loses its moral hold of his conscience if he do not instantaneously…

Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua with the people, to engage them to serve God. The manner of his dealing with them shows him…

Now therefore put away]"Now thanne, he said, do зe awey alien goddis fro the middil of зou," Wyclif. He again reverts to their secret practice of idolatry. Comp. Gen 35:2; 1Sa 7:3.