Joshua24:20

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Translation

If you forsake

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YHVH (read Adonai) and serve

foreign gods, He will turn and do you harm

and utterly destroy

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you after He has done good to you.

Paraphrase

If you forsake THE ETERNAL AND PERSONAL GOD and serve foreign gods, He will change the way He has been acting toward you and do harm to you;

He might annihilate you even though He has been good to you in the past.

Footnotes

1

“forsake” has a primary meaning of “leave.”

2

“utterly destroy” basically means “an end, or completion;” it also means “to bring to an end, thus destroy, annihilate, or exterminate.” It is a very strong word.