Joshua Chapter 22

• Joshua 22:1
  Joshua.
• Joshua 22:2
  Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
• Joshua 22:3
  and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.
• Joshua 22:4
  You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the duty of the commandment of the LORD your God.
• Joshua 22:5
  Now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession,...
• Joshua 22:6
  Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, to walk in all...
• Joshua 22:7
  So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
• Joshua 22:8
  Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but Joshua gave to the other half among their brothers beyond the Jordan ...
• Joshua 22:9
  and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with ...
• Joshua 22:10
  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 ...
• Joshua 22:11
  When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Mana...
• Joshua 22:12
  The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar along th...
• Joshua 22:13
  When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against the...
• Joshua 22:14
  The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phineha...
• Joshua 22:15
  With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were each head of their fathers’ houses among the...
• Joshua 22:16
  They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, s...
• Joshua 22:17
  “The whole congregation of the LORD says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following ...
• Joshua 22:18
  Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of ...
• Joshua 22:19
  that you must turn away today from following the LORD? It will be, since you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the who...
• Joshua 22:20
  However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD’s tabernacle dwells, a...
• Joshua 22:21
  Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? That man didn’t perish alone i...
• Joshua 22:22
  Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
• Joshua 22:23
  “The Mighty One, God, the LORD, the Mighty One, God, the LORD, he knows; and Israel shall know: if it was in rebellion, or if in trespass against the ...
• Joshua 22:24
  that we have built us an altar to turn away from following the LORD; or if to offer burnt offering or meal offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peac...
• Joshua 22:25
  “If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you...
• Joshua 22:26
  For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad. You have no portion in the LORD.”’ So your c...
• Joshua 22:27
  “Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice;
• Joshua 22:28
  but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of the LORD before him with our bur...
• Joshua 22:29
  “Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, “Behold the pattern of the LORD’s alta...
• Joshua 22:30
  “Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn away today from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offering, for meal ...
• Joshua 22:31
  When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him, heard the words that the ...
• Joshua 22:32
  Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, “Today we know that th...
• Joshua 22:33
  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...
• Joshua 22:34
  The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of going up against them to war, to destroy the la...
• Joshua 22:35
  The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God.”