Joshua 22:17

Is it a small thing to you that you sinned with Beelphegor, and the stain of that crime remaineth in us to this day? and many of the people perished.

Douay-Rheims 1899

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

16Thus saith all the people of the Lord: What meaneth this transgression? Why have you forsaken the Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?

18And you have forsaken the Lord to day, and to morrow his wrath will rage against all Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 25:3And Israel was initiated to Beelphegor: upon which the Lord being angry,

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord hath done against Beelphegor, how he hath destroyed all his worshippers from among you.

Psalms 106:28They also were initiated to Beelphegor: and ate the sacrifices of the dead.

1 Corinthians 10:11Now all these things happened to them in figure: and they are written for our correction, upon whom the ends of the world are come.

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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