Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Reubenites We have already seen, that a detachment of
And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
take
Exodus 15:26 And said, If you will diligently listen to the voice of the LORD …
Deuteronomy 4:1,2,6,9 Now therefore listen, O Israel, to the statutes and to the judgments, …
Deuteronomy 6:6-9,17 And these words, which I command you this day, shall be in your heart…
Deuteronomy 11:22 For if you shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command …
1 Chronicles 28:7,8 Moreover I will establish his kingdom for ever, if he be constant …
Psalm 106:3 Blessed are they that keep judgment, and he that does righteousness …
Psalm 119:4-6 You have commanded us to keep your precepts diligently…
Proverbs 4:23 Keep your heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
Isaiah 55:2 Why do you spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor …
Jeremiah 12:16 And it shall come to pass, if they will diligently learn the ways …
Hebrews 6:11,12 And we desire that every one of you do show the same diligence to …
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any …
2 Peter 1:5-10 And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; …
love
Exodus 20:6 And showing mercy to thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.
Deuteronomy 6:5 And you shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, and with …
Deuteronomy 10:12,13 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but …
Deuteronomy 11:1,13 Therefore you shall love the LORD your God, and keep his charge, …
Matthew 22:37 Jesus said to him, You shall love the Lord your God with all your …
John 14:15,21-23 If you love me, keep my commandments…
John 21:15-17 So when they had dined, Jesus said to Simon Peter, Simon, son of …
Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to them that love …
James 1:12 Blessed is the man that endures temptation: for when he is tried, …
James 2:5 Listen, my beloved brothers, Has not God chosen the poor of this …
1 John 5:2,3 By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, …
cleave
Joshua 23:8 But hold to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
Deuteronomy 4:4 But you that did join to the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.
Deuteronomy 10:20 You shall fear the LORD your God; him shall you serve, and to him …
Deuteronomy 13:4 You shall walk after the LORD your God, and fear him, and keep his …
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …
Romans 12:9 Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; hold …
serve
Joshua 24:14,15 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth…
1 Samuel 7:3 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return …
1 Samuel 12:20,24 And Samuel said to the people, Fear not: you have done all this wickedness: …
Matthew 4:10 Then said Jesus to him, Get you hence, Satan: for it is written, …
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and …
Luke 1:74 That he would grant to us, that we being delivered out of the hand …
John 12:26 If any man serve me, let him follow me; and where I am, there shall …
Acts 27:23 For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,
Romans 1:9 For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son…
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
Joshua 22:7,8 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession …
Joshua 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron …
Genesis 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, …
Genesis 47:7,10 And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: …
Exodus 39:43 And Moses did look on all the work, and, behold, they had done it …
1 Samuel 2:20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give you …
2 Samuel 6:18,20 And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings …
2 Chronicles 30:18 For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, …
Luke 2:34 And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Behold, this …
Luke 24:50 And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, …
Hebrews 7:6,7 But he whose descent is not counted from them received tithes of …
Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
And 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 unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
the country of Gilead
Joshua 13:11,25,31 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and …
Numbers 32:1,26,29,39,40 Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great …
Deuteronomy 3:15,16 And I gave Gilead to Machir…
Psalm 60:7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength …
And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
the children This verse should probably be rendered, `And when they came to the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, THEN built an altar by (or beyond, al) Jordan, a great altar to the view.' It would appear, that when they came to the river, they formed the purpose of building the altar; and when they crossed it they put that purpose into execution. it is evident that they did not build it west of the Jordan, for that was not in their territories, and the next verse expressly says that it was built over against the land of Canaan.
built
Joshua 22:25-28 For the LORD has made Jordan a border between us and you, you children …
Joshua 4:5-9 And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your …
Joshua 24:26,27 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took …
Genesis 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he …
Genesis 31:46-52 And Jacob said to his brothers, Gather stones; and they took stones, …
And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
And the children of Israel sent unto 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,
sent
Deuteronomy 13:14 Then shall you inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, …
Judges 20:12 And the tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, …
Proverbs 20:18 Every purpose is established by counsel: and with good advice make war.
Matthew 18:15 Moreover if your brother shall trespass against you, go and tell …
Phinehas
Exodus 6:25 And Eleazar Aaron's son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to …
Numbers 25:7,11-13 And when Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, …
Judges 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before …
Psalm 106:30,31 Then stood up Phinehas, and executed judgment: and so the plague was stayed…
Proverbs 25:9-13 Debate your cause with your neighbor himself; and discover not a …
And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
the whole
Joshua 22:12 And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation …
Matthew 18:17 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it to the church: but …
1 Corinthians 1:10 Now I beseech you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, …
1 Corinthians 5:4 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, …
Galatians 1:1,2 Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, …
trespass
Leviticus 5:19 It is a trespass offering: he has certainly trespassed against the LORD.
Leviticus 26:40 If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, …
Numbers 5:6 Speak to the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit …
1 Chronicles 21:3 And Joab answered, The LORD make his people an hundred times so many …
2 Chronicles 26:18 And they withstood Uzziah the king, and said to him, It appertains …
2 Chronicles 28:13 And said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for whereas …
Ezra 9:2,15 For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons…
Matthew 6:14,15 For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will …
to turn
Joshua 22:18 But that you must turn away this day from following the LORD? and …
Exodus 32:8 They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: …
Numbers 14:43 For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you …
Numbers 32:15 For if you turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them …
Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may …
Deuteronomy 30:17 But if your heart turn away, so that you will not hear, but shall …
2 Chronicles 10:19 And Israel rebelled against the house of David to this day.
2 Chronicles 25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the …
Hebrews 12:25 See that you refuse not him that speaks. For if they escaped not …
rebel
Leviticus 17:8,9 And you shall say to them, Whatever man there be of the house of …
Deuteronomy 12:4-6,13,14 You shall not do so to the LORD your God…
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …
Psalm 78:8 And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; …
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned …
Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
following
Joshua 22:16 Thus said the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this …
Deuteronomy 7:4 For they will turn away your son from following me, that they may …
1 Samuel 12:14,20 If you will fear the LORD, and serve him, and obey his voice, and …
1 Kings 9:6 But if you shall at all turn from following me, you or your children…
2 Kings 17:21 For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam …
2 Chronicles 25:27 Now after the time that Amaziah did turn away from following the …
2 Chronicles 34:33 And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries …
and it will
Ezra 9:13,14 And after all that is come on us for our evil deeds, and for our …
he will be
Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed …
Joshua 7:1,11,21 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: …
Numbers 16:22 And they fell on their faces, and said, O God, the God of the spirits …
2 Samuel 24:1 And again the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he …
1 Chronicles 21:1,14 And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel…
Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
unclean
Exodus 15:17 You shall bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of your inheritance, …
Leviticus 18:25-28 And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof …
Amos 7:17 Therefore thus said the LORD; Your wife shall be an harlot in the …
Acts 10:14,15 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that …
Acts 11:8,9 But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean has at any …
wherein
Joshua 18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together …
Leviticus 17:8,9 And you shall say to them, Whatever man there be of the house of …
Deuteronomy 12:5,6 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
2 Chronicles 11:13,16,17 And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted …
Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,
Then the children The conduct and answer of these Reubenites and the associates are worthy of admiration and imitation. Though conscious of the innocence, they permitted Phinehas to finish his speech, though composed of little else than accusations, without any interruption; and taking in good part the suspicions, reproofs, and even harshness of their brethren, with the utmost meekness and solemnity they explain their intention, give all the satisfaction in their power, and with great propriety and reverence, appeal to that God against whom they were supposed to have rebelled.
answered
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Proverbs 16:1 The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, …
Proverbs 18:13 He that answers a matter before he hears it, it is folly and shame to him.
Proverbs 24:26 Every man shall kiss his lips that gives a right answer.
Acts 11:4 But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded …
James 1:19 Why, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to …
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts…
heads
Exodus 18:21-25 Moreover you shall provide out of all the people able men, such as …
Micah 5:2 But you, Bethlehem Ephratah, though you be little among the thousands …
The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
Lord God. El Elohim Yehowah, literally `The strong God, Elohim Jehovah,' which is nearly the version of Luther, (), `The strong God, the Lord.'
Exodus 18:11 Now I know that the LORD is greater than all gods: for in the thing …
Deuteronomy 10:17 For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great …
Psalm 82:1 God stands in the congregation of the mighty; he judges among the gods.
Psalm 95:3 For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
Psalm 97:7 Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves …
Psalm 136:2 O give thanks to the God of gods: for his mercy endures for ever.
Daniel 2:47 The king answered to Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your …
Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, …
1 Timothy 6:16 Who only has immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can …
Revelation 19:16 And he has on his clothing and on his thigh a name written, KING …
he knoweth
1 Kings 8:39 Then hear you in heaven your dwelling place, and forgive, and do, …
Joshua 10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with …
Joshua 23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he …
Psalm 7:3 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands;
Psalm 44:21 Shall not God search this out? for he knows the secrets of the heart.
Psalm 139:1-12 O lord, you have searched me, and known me…
Jeremiah 12:3 But you, O LORD, know me: you have seen me, and tried my heart toward …
Jeremiah 17:10 I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every …
John 2:24,25 But Jesus did not commit himself to them, because he knew all men…
John 21:17 He said to him the third time, Simon, son of Jonas, love you me? …
Acts 1:24 And they prayed, and said, You, Lord, which know the hearts of all …
2 Corinthians 11:11,31 Why? because I love you not? God knows…
Hebrews 4:13 Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight…
Revelation 2:23 And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall …
Israel
Psalm 37:6 And he shall bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your …
Micah 7:9 I will bear the indignation of the LORD, because I have sinned against …
Malachi 3:18 Then shall you return, and discern between the righteous and the …
Acts 11:2-18 And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision …
2 Corinthians 5:11 Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we …
if it be
1 Samuel 15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as …
Job 31:5-8,38-40 If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot has hurried to deceit…
Psalm 7:3-5 O LORD my God, If I have done this; if there be iniquity in my hands…
Acts 25:11 For if I be an offender, or have committed any thing worthy of death, …
That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;
let the Lord
Genesis 9:4 But flesh with the life thereof, which is the blood thereof, shall you not eat.
Deuteronomy 18:19 And it shall come to pass, that whoever will not listen to my words …
1 Samuel 20:16 So Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, Let …
2 Chronicles 24:22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his …
Psalm 10:13,14 Why does the wicked scorn God? he has said in his heart, You will …
Ezekiel 3:18 When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you give him …
Ezekiel 33:6,8 But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, …
And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
ye have
Joshua 22:27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations …
2 Samuel 20:1 And there happened to be there a man of Belial, whose name was Sheba, …
1 Kings 12:16 So when all Israel saw that the king listened not to them, the people …
Ezra 4:2,3 Then they came to Zerubbabel, and to the chief of the fathers, and …
Nehemiah 2:20 Then answered I them, and said to them, The God of heaven, he will …
Acts 8:21 You have neither part nor lot in this matter: for your heart is not …
make
1 Samuel 26:19 Now therefore, I pray you, let my lord the king hear the words of …
1 Kings 12:27-30 If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the LORD at …
1 Kings 14:16 And he shall give Israel up because of the sins of Jeroboam, who …
1 Kings 15:30 Because of the sins of Jeroboam which he sinned, and which he made Israel sin…
Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.
a witness
Joshua 22:10,34 And when they came to the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan…
Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a …
Genesis 31:48,52 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. …
1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and …
that we
Deuteronomy 12:5,6,11,17,18,26,27 But to the place which the LORD your God shall choose out of all …
Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you.
God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
God forbid
Joshua 24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake …
Genesis 44:7,17 And they said to him, Why said my lord these words? God forbid that …
1 Samuel 12:23 Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the LORD …
1 Kings 21:3 And Naboth said to Ahab, The LORD forbid it me, that I should give …
Romans 3:6 God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?
Romans 6:2 God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?
Romans 9:14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? God forbid.
to build
Joshua 22:23,26 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or …
Deuteronomy 12:13,14 Take heed to yourself that you offer not your burnt offerings in …
2 Kings 18:22 But if you say to me, We trust in the LORD our God: is not that he, …
2 Chronicles 32:12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, …
And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
it pleased them. [heb] it was good in their eyes. It is remarkable, that Joshua is not once named in this transaction; but that only shows, that he did not in his old age assume any regal authority, but left the elders and magistrates to conduct the business, only acting himself when great occasions made it necessary. Yet we cannot doubt, that his wisdom and piety influenced the counsels of the elders and people at this time.
Joshua 22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of …
Genesis 28:8 And Esau seeing that the daughters of Canaan pleased not Isaac his father;
Judges 8:3 God has delivered into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and …
1 Samuel 25:32,33 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which …
1 Samuel 29:6 Then Achish called David, and said to him, Surely, as the LORD lives, …
2 Chronicles 30:4 And the thing pleased the king and all the congregation.
Esther 1:21 And the saying pleased the king and the princes; and the king did …
Proverbs 15:1 A soft answer turns away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger.
Acts 11:18 When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified …
And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.
the Lord is
Joshua 3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you…
Leviticus 26:11,12 And I set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you…
Numbers 14:41-43 And Moses said, Why now do you transgress the commandment of the …
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …
Psalm 68:17 The chariots of God are twenty thousand, even thousands of angels: …
Isaiah 12:6 Cry out and shout, you inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy …
Zechariah 8:23 Thus said the LORD of hosts; In those days it shall come to pass, …
Matthew 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, …
1 Corinthians 14:25 And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling …
now [heb] then
And 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, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
the thing
Joshua 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed …
Acts 15:12,31 Then all the multitude kept silence, and gave audience to Barnabas and Paul…
2 Corinthians 7:7 And not by his coming only, but by the consolation with which he …
1 Thessalonians 3:6-8 But now when Timotheus came from you to us, and brought us good tidings …
blessed
1 Samuel 25:32,33 And David said to Abigail, Blessed be the LORD God of Israel, which …
1 Chronicles 29:20 And David said to all the congregation, Now bless the LORD your God. …
Nehemiah 8:5,6 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people; (for he …
Daniel 2:19 Then was the secret revealed to Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel …
Luke 2:28 Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,
Ephesians 1:3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed …
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
Ed. i.e, a witness. The word witness, or testimony, is not found in the common editions of the Hebrew Bible; and is supplied in italics by our venerable translators, at least in our modern copies; for in the first edition of this translation, it stands in the text without any note of this kind; but it is found in several of Kennicott's and De Rossi's MSS., and also in the Syriac and Arabic. Several also of the early printed of the hebrew Bible have the word [ed], either in the text or in the margin; and it must be allowed to be necessary to complete the sense. It is very probable that an inscription was put on this altar, signifying the purpose for which it was erected. Thus was this affair most happily terminated.
Joshua 22:27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations …
Joshua 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a …
1 Kings 18:39 And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they …
Isaiah 43:10 You are my witnesses, said the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: …
Matthew 4:10 Then said Jesus to him, Get you hence, Satan: for it is written, …
the Lord is God. Several manuscripts read more emphatically, Yehowah, hoo Elohim, `Jehovah he is God.'
