Joshua 22:17

Is it a small thing to you that you have sinned with Baal of Peor, and that the stain of that crime continues among us, even to the present day? And many of the people have fallen.

Catholic Public Domain Version

In The King James Version

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,

In Context

16“All the people of the Lord declare this: What is this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord, the God of Israel, by building a sacrilegious altar, and by withdrawing from the worship of him?

18And yet you have forsaken the Lord today, and tomorrow his wrath will rage against all of Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 25:3And Israel was initiated into Baal of Peor. And so the Lord, being angry,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord has done against Baal-peor, in what manner he has crushed all of his worshippers from among you.

Psalms 106:28And they cried out to the Lord in their tribulation, and he led them out of their distress.

1 Corinthians 10:11Now all of these things happened to them as an example, and so they have been written for our correction, because the final age has fallen upon us.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 22:11-21

The Altar of the Reubenites. ( b. c. 1444.) 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. 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 over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. 12 And… Read the whole commentary →

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