Joshua 22

¹Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 32:18-33Deut 29:7-8

²And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:12-18Deut 3:16-20Num 32:20-29

³Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Phil 1:23-27

⁴And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side Jordan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 13:8Num 32:18Deut 3:20Deut 12:9Deut 29:8Deut 3:1-17Josh 13:15-14:5Josh 21:43-44Num 32:33-42

⁵But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Matt 22:37Exod 20:6Rom 8:28Exod 15:26Deut 11:22John 14:15Jas 1:12Josh 24:14-15Matt 4:10Acts 11:23

⁶So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 14:13Luke 24:502 Sam 6:18Exod 39:43Gen 47:71 Sam 2:202 Chr 30:182 Sam 6:20Gen 14:19Gen 47:10

⁷Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 17:1-12Num 32:33Josh 13:29-31

⁸And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 31:271 Sam 30:24Deut 8:17-18Deut 8:9-14Prov 3:161 Cor 15:581 Sam 30:162 Chr 17:5Heb 11:26Ps 68:12

⁹And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 32:26Num 32:29Num 32:1Deut 3:15-16Josh 13:11Josh 13:25Josh 13:31Num 32:39-40Ps 60:7

¹⁰And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 28:18Gen 31:46-52Josh 22:25-28Josh 24:26-27Josh 4:5-9

¹¹And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 13:12-14Deut 12:5-7John 1:28Josh 2:7Lev 17:8-9John 20:1John 20:12Josh 3:14-16Judg 12:5

¹²And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Judg 20:1-11Acts 11:2-3Deut 13:15Gal 4:17-18Josh 18:1Rom 10:2

¹³And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 25:7Exod 6:25Judg 20:28Ps 106:30-31Deut 13:14Judg 20:12Matt 18:15Num 25:11-13Prov 20:18Prov 25:9-13

¹⁴And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 1:4Exod 18:25

¹⁵And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 21:31 Cor 1:101 Cor 5:41 Sam 15:232 Chr 10:192 Chr 25:272 Chr 26:182 Chr 28:13Deut 12:13-14Deut 12:4-6

¹⁶Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:13-14

¹⁷Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 25:1-18Ps 106:28-29Deut 4:3-41 Cor 10:111 Cor 10:8Ezra 9:13-14

¹⁸But that ye must turn away this day from following the Lord? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the Lord, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Num 16:22Josh 22:161 Chr 21:11 Chr 21:141 Kgs 9:61 Sam 12:141 Sam 12:202 Chr 25:272 Chr 34:332 Kgs 17:21

¹⁹Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the Lord, wherein the Lord’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the Lord, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 18:12 Chr 11:132 Chr 11:16-17Acts 10:14-15Acts 11:8-9Amos 7:17Deut 12:5-6Exod 15:17Lev 17:8-9Lev 18:25-28

²⁰Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 7:1Josh 7:51 Cor 10:6Josh 7:18Josh 7:242 Pet 2:6Jude 1:5-6

²¹Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Pet 3:15Acts 11:4Exod 18:21-25Jas 1:19Mic 5:2Prov 15:1Prov 16:1Prov 18:13Prov 24:26

²²The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (save us not this day,) Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 8:39Deut 10:17Ps 44:21Job 10:7Jer 17:101 Sam 15:231 Tim 6:162 Cor 11:112 Cor 11:312 Cor 5:11

²³That we have built us an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the Lord himself require it; Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 20:16Deut 18:192 Chr 24:22Deut 12:11Ezek 3:18Ezek 33:6Ezek 33:8Gen 9:4Ps 10:13-14

²⁴And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 4:6Deut 6:20Exod 13:14Gen 18:19Gen 30:33

²⁵For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the Lord: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Kgs 12:161 Kgs 12:27-301 Kgs 14:161 Kgs 15:301 Sam 26:192 Sam 20:1Acts 8:21Ezra 4:2-3Josh 22:27Neh 2:20

²⁶Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

²⁷But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 24:27Gen 31:48Deut 12:11Deut 12:17-18Deut 12:5-6Josh 22:341 Sam 7:12Deut 12:26-27Gen 31:52Josh 22:10

²⁸Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 25:40Ezek 43:10-11Heb 8:52 Kgs 16:10

²⁹God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord, and turn this day from following the Lord, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the Lord our God that is before his tabernacle. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 12:13-14Josh 24:161 Kgs 21:31 Sam 12:232 Chr 32:122 Kgs 18:22Gen 44:17Gen 44:7Josh 22:23Josh 22:26

³⁰And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 22:331 Sam 25:32-331 Sam 29:62 Chr 30:4Acts 11:18Esth 1:21Gen 28:8Judg 8:3Prov 15:1

³¹And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the Lord: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:2 Chr 15:2Lev 26:11-121 Cor 14:25Isa 12:6Josh 3:10Matt 1:23Num 14:41-43Ps 68:17Zech 8:23

³²And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 22:12-14Prov 25:13

³³And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Chr 29:20Dan 2:19Luke 2:28Josh 22:301 Sam 25:32-331 Thess 3:6-82 Cor 7:7Acts 15:12Acts 15:31Eph 1:3

³⁴And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 22:27Isa 43:10Matt 4:101 Kgs 18:39Josh 24:27