Joshua 22:16

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. ¹ 

Joshua 22:23

22:23 If we have built ²  an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the Lord by making ³  burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering ⁴  tokens of peace ⁵  on it, the Lord himself will punish us. ⁶ 

[22:16]  ¹ tn Heb “What is this unfaithfulness with which you have been unfaithful against the God of Israel, turning today from after the Lord, when you built for yourselves an altar, rebelling today against the Lord?”

[22:23]  ² tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”

[22:23]  ³ tn Heb “or if to offer up.”

[22:23]  ⁴ tn Heb “or if to make.”

[22:23]  ⁵ tn Or “peace offerings.”

[22:23]  ⁶ tn Heb “the Lord, he will seek.” Perhaps this is a self-imprecation in an oath, “may the Lord himself punish us.”