Joshua 22:17

Is the sin of Peor too little for you, whereas we have not been cleansed from it until this day, though there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 says the whole congregation of the Lord, What is this transgression that ye have transgressed before the God of Israel, to turn away today from the Lord, in that ye have built for yourselves an altar, so that ye should be apostates from the Lord?

18And ye have this day revolted from the Lord; and it shall come to pass if ye revolt this day from the Lord, that tomorrow there shall be wrath upon all Israel.

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Cross References

Numbers 25:3And Israel consecrated themselves to Baal-peor; and the Lord was very angry with Israel.

Deuteronomy 4:3Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God did in the case of Baal-peor; for every man that went after Baal-peor, the Lord your God has utterly destroyed him from among you.

Psalms 106:28Then they cry to the Lord in their affliction, 1 And he brings them out of their distresses. 1

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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