Joshua 22:25
For Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you. You people of Reuben and people of Gad, you have nothing to do with Yahweh.' So your children might make our children cease to worship Yahweh.
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26So we said, 'Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offerings nor for any sacrifices,
Cross References
1 Samuel 26:19Now therefore, I beg you, let my master the king listen to the words of his servant. If it is Yahweh who has stirred you up against me, let him accept an offering; but if it is human beings, may they be cursed in the sight of Yahweh, for they have today driven me out, that I should not cling to the inheritance of Yahweh; they have said to me, 'Go worship other gods.'
1 Kings 12:16When all Israel saw that the king did not listen to them, the people answered him and said, 1 “What share do we have in David? 2 We have no inheritance in the son of Jesse! 1 Go to your tents, Israel. 2 Now see to your own house, David.” So Israel went back to their tents.
1 Kings 14:16He will give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, the sins that he has committed, and through which he has led Israel to sin.”
Ezra 4:2So they approached Zerubbabel and the heads of their ancestors' clans. They said to them, “Let us build with you, for, like you, we seek your God and have sacrificed to him since the days when Esarhaddon, king of Assyria, brought us to this place.”
Psalms 16:5Yahweh, you are my chosen portion and my cup. You hold onto my lot. 1
Matthew Henry on Joshua 22:22-30
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 The 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,) 23 That 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;… Read the whole commentary →