22:24 We swear we have done this because we were worried that 1 in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? 2 22:25 The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 3 In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying 4 the Lord.
1 tnHeb “Surely, from worry concerning a matter we have done this, saying.”
2 tnHeb “What is there to you and to the Lord God of Israel?” The rhetorical question is sarcastic in tone and anticipates a response, “Absolutely none!”