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JOSHUA ยท Chapter 22
22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half
tribe of Manasseh,
22:2 And said unto them, All of you have kept all that Moses the servant
of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded
you:
22:3 All of you have not left your brethren these many days unto this
day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
22:4 And now the LORD your God has given rest unto your brethren, as
he promised them: therefore now return all of you, 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.
22:5 But 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.
22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto
their tents.
22:7 Now 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,
22:8 And he spoke 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.
22:9 And 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.
22:10 And 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.
22:11 And 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 opposite to the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the
passage of the children of Israel.
22:12 And 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.
22:13 And 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,
22:14 And 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.
22:15 And 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 spoke with them, saying,
22:16 Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is
this that all of you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn
away this day from following the LORD, in that all of you have built you
an altar, that all of you might rebel this day against the LORD?
22:17 Is 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,
22:18 But that all of you must turn away this day from following the
LORD? and it will be, seeing all of you rebel to day against the LORD,
that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then
pass all of you over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein
the LORD's tabernacle dwells, 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.
22:20 Did 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.
22:21 Then 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,
22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows, and Israel
he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the
LORD, (save us not this day,)
22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD,
or if to offer thereon burnt offering or food offering, or if to offer
peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
22:24 And 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 all of you to do with the LORD God of Israel?
22:25 For the LORD has made Jordan a border between us and you, all
of you children of Reuben and children of Gad; all of you have no part
in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing
the LORD.
22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not
for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:27 But 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, All of
you have no part in the LORD.
22:28 Therefore 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.
22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this
day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for
food offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God
that is before his tabernacle.
22:30 And 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 spoke, it pleased them.
22:31 And 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 all of you have
not committed this trespass against the LORD: now all of you have delivered
the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
22:32 And 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.
22:33 And 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.
22:34 And 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.
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