Verse 33
Joshua 22:33
World English Bible, British Edition
33
The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel
blessed God (Elohim), 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.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּיטַ֣ב הַ/דָּבָ֗ר בְּ/עֵינֵי֙ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַ/יְבָרֲכ֥וּ אֱלֹהִ֖ים בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל וְ/לֹ֣א אָמְר֗וּ לַ/עֲל֤וֹת עֲלֵי/הֶם֙ לַ/צָּבָ֔א לְ/שַׁחֵת֙ אֶת הָ/אָ֔רֶץ אֲשֶׁ֛ר בְּנֵי רְאוּבֵ֥ן וּ/בְנֵי גָ֖ד יֹשְׁבִ֥ים בָּֽ/הּ
English Translation
And it was good in the eyes of the sons of Israel, and they blessed God. The sons of Israel did not say to go up against them to destroy the land that the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad are dwelling in.
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Chapter 22 Context
1
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
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2
and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded you, and have list...
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3
You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have
performed the duty of the comm...
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4
Now the LORD your God (Elohim) has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to
them. Therefore now r...
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5
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses
the servant of the LORD comman...
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6
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their
tents.
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7
Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in
Bashan; but Joshua gave to the...
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8
and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with
very much livestock, with si...
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9
The children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe
of Manasseh returned, and departed...
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10
When they came to the region near the Jordan, that is in the land of
Canaan, the children of Reuben...
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11
The children of Israel heard this, “Behold, the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the h...
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12
When the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of
the children of Israel gathered t...
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13
The children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben, and to the children
of Gad, and to the half-t...
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14
With him were ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each
of the tribes of Israel; and they...
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15
They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and
to the half-tribe of Manasseh,...
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16
“The whole congregation of the LORD says, ‘What trespass is this that
you have committed against the...
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17
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed
ourselves to this day, al...
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18
that you must turn away today from following the LORD? It will be,
since you rebel today against the...
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19
However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over
to the land of the possession of...
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20
Didn’t Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing,
and wrath fell on all the cong...
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21
Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spo...
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22
“The Mighty One, God (Elohim), the LORD, the Mighty One, God (Elohim), the LORD, he knows;
and Israe...
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23
that we have built us an altar to turn away from following the LORD;
or if to offer burnt offering o...
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24
“If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason,
saying, ‘In time to come your children m...
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25
For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children
of Reuben and children of...
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26
“Therefore we said, ‘Let’s now prepare to build ourselves an
altar, not for burnt offering, nor for...
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27
but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations
after us, that we may perfo...
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28
“Therefore we said, ‘It shall be, when they tell us or our generations
this in time to come, that we...
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29
“Far be it from us that we should rebel against the LORD, and
turn away today from following the LOR...
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30
When Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation,
even the heads of the thousands of Is...
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31
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben,
to the children of Gad, and t...
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32
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from
the children of Reuben, and f...
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33
The thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel
blessed God (Elohim), and spoke...
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The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar “A Witness
Between Us that the LORD i...
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