Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Num 32:18-33Deu 29:7-8 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. Jos 1:12-18Deu 3:16-20Num 32:20-29 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. Php 1:23-27 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, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan. Jos 13:8Num 32:18Deu 3:20Deu 12:9Deu 29:8Deu 3:1-17Jos 13:15Jos 21:43-44 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 his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.” Mat 22:37Exo 20:6Rom 8:28Exo 15:26Deu 11:22Jhn 14:15Jas 1:12Jos 24:14-15
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents. Jos 14:13Luk 24:502Sa 6:18Exo 39:43Gen 47:71Sa 2:202Ch 30:182Sa 6:20 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 westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them, Jos 17:1-12Num 32:33Jos 13:29-31 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 very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.” Num 31:271Sa 30:24Deu 8:17-18Deu 8:9-14Pro 3:161Co 15:581Sa 30:162Ch 17:5
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 is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of the LORD by Moses. Num 32:26Num 32:29Num 32:1Deu 3:15-16Jos 13:11Jos 13:25Jos 13:31Num 32:39-40 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 Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to look at. Gen 28:18Gen 31:46-52Jos 22:25-28Jos 24:26-27Jos 4:5-9 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 the border of the land of Canaan, in the region around the Jordan, on the side that belongs to the children of Israel.” Deu 13:12-14Deu 12:5-7Jhn 1:28Jos 2:7Lev 17:8-9Jdg 12:5Jhn 20:1Jhn 20:12 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 them to war. Jdg 20:1-11Act 11:2-3Deu 13:15Gal 4:17-18Jos 18:1Rom 10:2 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, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest. Num 25:7Exo 6:25Jdg 20:28Psa 106:30-31Deu 13:14Jdg 20:12Mat 18:15Num 25:11-13 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 thousands of Israel. Num 1:4Exo 18:25 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, saying, 1Ch 21:31Co 1:101Co 5:41Sa 15:232Ch 10:192Ch 25:272Ch 26:182Ch 28:13 “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 the LORD, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against the LORD? Deu 12:13-14 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 the LORD, Num 25:1-18Psa 106:28-29Deu 4:3-41Co 10:111Co 10:8Ezr 9:13-14 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 whole congregation of Israel. Num 16:22Jos 22:161Ch 21:11Ch 21:141Ki 9:61Sa 12:141Sa 12:202Ch 25:27 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, and take possession among us; but don’t rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the LORD our God’s altar. Jos 18:12Ch 11:132Ch 11:16-17Act 10:14-15Act 11:8-9Amo 7:17Deu 12:5-6Exo 15:17 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 in his iniquity.’” Jos 7:1Jos 7:51Co 10:6Jos 7:18Jos 7:242Pe 2:6Jud 1:5-6
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, 1Pe 3:15Act 11:4Exo 18:21-25Jas 1:19Mic 5:2Pro 15:1Pro 16:1Pro 18:13 “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 LORD (don’t save us today), 1Ki 8:39Deu 10:17Psa 44:21Job 10:7Jer 17:101Sa 15:231Ti 6:162Co 11:11 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 peace offerings, let the LORD himself require it. 1Sa 20:16Deu 18:192Ch 24:22Deu 12:11Ezk 3:18Ezk 33:6Ezk 33:8Gen 9:4
“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 to do with the LORD, the God of Israel? Jos 4:6Deu 6:20Exo 13:14Gen 18:19Gen 30:33 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 children might make our children cease from fearing the LORD. 1Ki 12:161Ki 12:27-301Ki 14:161Ki 15:301Sa 26:192Sa 20:1Act 8:21Ezr 4:2-3
“Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; 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 burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;’ that your children may not tell our children in time to come, ‘You have no portion in the LORD.’ Jos 24:27Gen 31:48Deu 12:11Deu 12:17-18Deu 12:5-6Jos 22:341Sa 7:12Deu 12:26-27
“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 altar, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.”’ Exo 25:40Ezk 43:10-11Heb 8:52Ki 16:10
“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 offering, or for sacrifice, besides the LORD our God’s altar that is before his tabernacle!” Deu 12:13-14Jos 24:161Ki 21:31Sa 12:232Ch 32:122Ki 18:22Gen 44:17Gen 44:7
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 children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well. Jos 22:331Sa 25:32-331Sa 29:62Ch 30:4Act 11:18Est 1:21Gen 28:8Jdg 8:3 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 the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against the LORD. Now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the LORD’s hand.” 2Ch 15:2Lev 26:11-121Co 14:25Isa 12:6Jos 3:10Mat 1:23Num 14:41-43Psa 68:17 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, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. Jos 22:12-14Pro 25:13 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 land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad lived. 1Ch 29:20Dan 2:19Luk 2:28Jos 22:301Sa 25:32-331Th 3:6-82Co 7:7Act 15:12 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness Between Us that the LORD is God.” Jos 22:27Isa 43:10Mat 4:101Ki 18:39Jos 24:27