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Text -- Joshua 22:1-20 (NET)
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Joshua Sends Home the Eastern Tribes
22:1 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites , Gadites , and the half-tribe of Manasseh
22:2 and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant , and you have obeyed all I have told you.
22:3 You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time , right up to this very day . You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God .
22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure , just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan .
22:5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord’s servant gave you. Love the Lord your God , follow all his instructions , obey his commands , be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being !”
22:6 Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way ; they returned to their homes .
22:7 (Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh , Moses had assigned land in Bashan ; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home , he rewarded them,
22:8 saying , “Take home great wealth , a lot of cattle , silver , gold , bronze , iron , and a lot of clothing . Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers .”
22:9 So the Reubenites , Gadites , and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead , which they acquired by the Lord’s command through Moses .
Civil War is Averted
22:10 The Reubenites , Gadites , and half-tribe of Manasseh came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan and built there , near the Jordan , an impressive altar .
22:11 The Israelites received this report : “Look , the Reubenites , Gadites , and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to the land of Canaan , at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side .”
22:12 When the Israelites heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at Shiloh to launch an attack against them.
22:13 The Israelites sent Phinehas , son of Eleazar , the priest , to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites , Gadites , and the half-tribe of Manasseh .
22:14 He was accompanied by ten leaders , one from each of the Israelite tribes , each one a family leader among the Israelite clans.
22:15 They went to the land of Gilead to the Reubenites , Gadites , and the half-tribe of Manasseh , and said to them:
22:16 “The entire community of the Lord says , ‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the Lord ? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the Lord .
22:17 The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough . To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord .
22:18 Now today you dare to turn back from following the Lord ! You are rebelling today against the Lord ; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel .
22:19 But if your own land is impure , cross over to the Lord’s own land , where the Lord himself lives , and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the Lord or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God .
22:20 When Achan son of Zerah disobeyed the command about the city’s riches, the entire Israelite community was judged , though only one man had sinned. He most certainly died for his sin !’”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Phinehas |
Altar |
PENTATEUCH, 3 |
MANASSEH (2) |
LEVITICUS, 2 |
Manasseh |
Israel |
GAD (1) |
Manaen |
REUBEN |
Reubenites |
Gad |
Motive |
Haste |
Prudence |
CRITICISM |
War |
Misjudgment |
Zeal |
Uncharitableness |
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NET Notes -> Jos 22:2; Jos 22:3; Jos 22:3; Jos 22:3; Jos 22:4; Jos 22:4; Jos 22:4; Jos 22:5; Jos 22:5; Jos 22:5; Jos 22:5; Jos 22:5; Jos 22:6; Jos 22:6; Jos 22:7; Jos 22:7; Jos 22:8; Jos 22:8; Jos 22:8; Jos 22:9; Jos 22:10; Jos 22:11; Jos 22:11; Jos 22:12; Jos 22:14; Jos 22:16; Jos 22:17; Jos 22:18; Jos 22:18; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:19; Jos 22:20; Jos 22:20
NET Notes: Jos 22:2 Heb “You have kept all which Moses, the Lord’s servant, commanded you, and you have listened to my voice, to all which I commanded you....
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NET Notes: Jos 22:9 Heb “returned and went from the sons of Israel, from Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their po...
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NET Notes: Jos 22:10 Heb “and they went to Geliloth of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Mana...
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NET Notes: Jos 22:14 Heb “ten leaders with him, one leader, one leader for a paternal house, for all the tribes of Israel, and each a head of the house of their fath...
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NET Notes: Jos 22:16 Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the Lord, when you buil...
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NET Notes: Jos 22:17 Heb “Was the sin of Peor too insignificant for us, from which we have not made purification to this day? And there was a plague in the assembly ...
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NET Notes: Jos 22:19 Heb “and us to you rebel.” The reading of the MT, the accusative sign with suffix (וְאֹתָנו...
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