Keluaran 19:8

19:8 and all the people answered together, “All that the Lord has commanded we will do!” ¹  So Moses brought the words of the people back to the Lord.

Keluaran 24:3

24:3 Moses came ²  and told the people all the Lord’s words ³  and all the decisions. All the people answered together, ⁴  “We are willing to do ⁵  all the words that the Lord has said,”

Ulangan 5:27

5:27 You go near so that you can hear everything the Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he ⁶  says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”

Ulangan 26:17

26:17 Today you have declared the Lord to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

Yosua 1:16

1:16 They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

Yosua 24:26

24:26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine.

Yosua 24:1

Israel Renews its Commitment to the Lord

24:1 Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel’s elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.

1 Samuel 12:10

12:10 Then they cried out to the Lord and admitted, ⁷  ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the Lord and have served the Baals and the images of Ashtoreth. ⁸  Now deliver us from the hand of our enemies so that we may serve you.’ ⁹ 

[19:8]  ¹ tn The verb is an imperfect. The people are not being presumptuous in stating their compliance – there are several options open for the interpretation of this tense. It may be classified as having a desiderative nuance: “we are willing to do” or, “we will do.”

[24:3]  ² sn The general consensus among commentators is that this refers to Moses’ coming from the mountain after he made the ascent in 20:21. Here he came and told them the laws (written in 20:22-23:33), and of the call to come up to Yahweh.

[24:3]  ³ sn The Decalogue may not be included here because the people had heard those commands themselves earlier.

[24:3]  ⁴ tn The text simply has “one voice” (קוֹל אֶחָד, qol ’ekhad); this is an adverbial accusative of manner, telling how the people answered – “in one voice,” or unanimously (see GKC 375 §118.q).

[24:3]  ⁵ tn The verb is the imperfect tense (נַעֲשֶׂה, na’aseh), although the form could be classified as a cohortative. If the latter, they would be saying that they are resolved to do what God said. If it is an imperfect, then the desiderative would make the most sense: “we are willing to do.” They are not presumptuously saying they are going to do all these things.

[5:27]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord our God.” See note on “He” in 5:3.

[12:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “and said.”

[12:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “the Ashtarot” (plural). The words “images of” are supplied in both vv. 3 and 4 for clarity.

[12:10]  sn The Semitic goddess Astarte was associated with love and war in the ancient Near East. See the note on the same term in 7:3.

[12:10]  ⁹ tn After the imperative, the prefixed verbal form with the prefixed conjunction indicates purpose/result.