Jamieson, Fausset and Brown on Joshua 24:2

Jos 24:2-13. Relates God's Benefits.

2. Joshua said unto all the people--His address briefly recapitulated the principal proofs of the divine goodness to Israel from the call of Abraham to their happy establishment in the land of promise; it showed them that they were indebted for their national existence as well as their peculiar privileges, not to any merits of their own, but to the free grace of God.

Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood--The Euphrates, namely, at Ur.

Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor--(see Ge 11:27). Though Terah had three sons, Nahor only is mentioned with Abraham, as the Israelites were descended from him on the mother's side through Rebekah and her nieces, Leah and Rachel.

served other gods--conjoining, like Laban, the traditional knowledge of the true God with the domestic use of material images (Ge 31:19, 34).