a. Choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve: Joshua commands them to choose whom you will serve, not if you will serve. We will all serve someone—either the devil (intentionally or not), or the LORD. We really are not left the option of not serving anyone. b. But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD: Joshua, as a wise man, sees the situation sensibly—he makes the intelligent choice to say as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Joshua 24:15