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When Joshua sent them to their homes he blessed them, <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.” <A name="10"></a><p class="hdg">The Altar of Witness<p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And when they came to Geliloth<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">a</a></span> near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan. <A name="12"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Then the Israelites received the report: “Behold, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar on the border of the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.” <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them. <A name="14"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>The Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the land of Gilead, to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel. <A name="16"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>They went to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead and said to them, <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: ‘What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day? <A name="18"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Was not the sin of Peor enough for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day? It even brought a plague upon the congregation of the LORD. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And now, would you turn away from the LORD? If you rebel today against the LORD, tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. <A name="20"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>If indeed the land of your inheritance is unclean, then cross over to the land of the LORD’s possession, where the LORD’s tabernacle stands, and take possession of it among us. But do not rebel against the LORD or against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the LORD our God. <A name="21"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>Was not Achan<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">b</a></span> son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">c</a></span> bringing wrath upon the whole congregation of Israel? Yet it was not only Achan who perished because of his sin!’” <A name="22"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel: <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from Him and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice peace offerings on it, may the LORD Himself hold us accountable. <A name="25"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, ‘What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel? <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD. <A name="27"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>That is why we said, ‘Let us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’ <A name="29"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Therefore we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’ <A name="30"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD and turn away from Him today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices, other than the altar of the LORD our God, which stands before His tabernacle.” <A name="31"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israel’s clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.” <A name="33"></a><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Then Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest, together with the other leaders, returned to the Israelites in the land of Canaan and brought back a report regarding the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>The Israelites were satisfied with the report, and they blessed God and spoke no more about going to war against them to destroy the land where the Reubenites and Gadites lived. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/22-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar Witness, for they said,<span class="fn"><a href="#fn">d</a></span> “It is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”</p><A name="fn"></a><div id="fnlink"><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:</b><br><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> <span class="footnotesbot">a</span> Or <i>to the circle of stones</i> or <i>to the region</i>; similarly in verse 11<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <i>Achan</i> means <i>troubler</i>; also called <i>Achar</i> in <a href="../1_chronicles/2.htm#7">1 Chronicles 2:7</a>.<br><span class="fnverse">20</span> <span class="footnotesbot">c</span> Forms of the Hebrew <i>cherem</i> refer to the giving over of things or persons to the LORD, either by destroying them or by giving them as an offering.<br><span class="fnverse">34</span> <span class="footnotesbot">d</span> Literally <i>named the altar, for</i><br><br /></div><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><a href=http://bereanbible.com>Berean Standard Bible (BSB)</a> printed 2016, 2020, 2022, 2025 by <a href=http://biblehub.com>Bible Hub</a> and <a href=http://berean.bible>Berean.Bible</a>. 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