Passage results

View commentary related to this passage

Joshua 22

    ²And said to them, You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.

    ³You have not deserted your brethren [the other tribes] these many days to this day but have carefully kept the charge of the Lord your God.

    ⁴But now the Lord your God has given rest to your brethren, as He promised them; so now go, return to your homes in the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the [east] side of the Jordan.

    ⁵But 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 cling to and unite with Him and to serve Him with all your heart and soul [your very life].

    ⁶So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their homes.

    ⁷Now to one-half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession on the west side of the Jordan among their brethren. So when Joshua sent them away to their homes, he blessed them,

    ⁸And he said to them, Return with much riches to your tents and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

    ⁹So the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, parting from the [other] Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had been given possession by the command of the Lord through Moses.

    ¹⁰And when they came to the region of the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar great to behold.

    ¹¹And the [other] Israelites heard it said, Behold, the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the edge of the land of Canaan in the region [west] of the Jordan in the passage [belonging to us], the Israelites.

    ¹²When the Israelites heard of it, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel gathered at Shiloh to make war on them.

    ¹³And the [other] Israelites sent to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest,

    ¹⁴And with him ten chiefs, one from each of the tribal families of Israel; and each one was a head of a father's house among the clans of Israel.

    ¹⁵And they came to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, and they said to them,

    ¹⁶The whole congregation of the Lord says, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that you have built yourselves an altar to rebel this day against the Lord?

    ¹⁷Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed even now, although there came a plague [in which 24,000 died] in the congregation of the Lord,^(A)

    ¹⁸That you must turn away this day from following the Lord? The result will be, since you rebel today against the Lord, that tomorrow He will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

    ¹⁹But now, if your land is unclean, pass over into the Lord's land, where the Lord's tabernacle resides, and take for yourselves a possession among us. But do not rebel against the Lord or rebel against us by building for yourselves an altar other than the altar of the Lord our God.

    ²⁰Did not Achan son of Zerah commit a trespass in the matter of taking accursed things [devoted to destruction] and wrath fall on all the congregation of Israel? And he did not perish alone in his perversity and iniquity.^(B)

    ²¹Then the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh said to the heads of the clans of Israel,

    ²²The Mighty One, God, the Lord! The Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows, and let Israel itself know! If it was in rebellion or in transgression against the Lord, spare us not today.

    ²³If we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord, or if we did so to offer on it burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings, may the Lord Himself take vengeance.

    ²⁴No! But we did it for fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

    ²⁵For the Lord has made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, you Reubenites and Gadites; you have no part in the Lord. So your children might make our children cease from fearing the Lord.

    ²⁶So we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,

    ²⁷But to be a witness between us and you and between the generations after us, that we will perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings; lest your children say to our children in time to come, You have no portion in the Lord.

    ²⁸So we thought, if that should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we can reply, Behold the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifices, but to be a witness between us and you.

    ²⁹Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord to build an altar for burnt offerings, for cereal offerings, or for sacrifices, besides the altar of the Lord our God that is before His tabernacle.

    ³⁰And when Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation and heads of the clans of Israel who were with him heard the words that the Reubenites, Gadites, and Manassites spoke, it pleased them.

    ³¹Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, said to the Reubenites, Gadites, and Manassites, Today we know the Lord is among us, because you have not committed this trespass and treachery against the Lord; now you have saved the Israelites from the Lord's hand.

    ³²Then Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, and the chiefs returned from the Reubenites and Gadites in the land of Gilead to the land of Canaan, to the [other] Israelites, and brought back word to them.

    ³³The report pleased the Israelites and they blessed God; and they spoke no more of going to war against them to destroy the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites dwelt.

    ³⁴The Reubenites and Gadites called the altar Ed [witness], saying, It shall be: A Witness Between Us that the Lord is God.

Joshua 23

    ²Joshua summoned all Israel, their elders, heads, judges, and officers, and said to them, I am old and advanced in years.

    ³And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake; for it is the Lord your God Who has fought for you.^(C)

    ⁴Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes those nations that remain, with all the nations I have cut off, from the Jordan to the Great Sea on the west.

    ⁵The Lord your God will thrust them out from before you and drive them out of your sight, and you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God ^[a]promised you.

    ⁶So be very courageous and steadfast to keep and do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning not aside from it to the right hand or the left,

    ⁷That you may not mix with these nations that remain among you, or make mention of the names of their gods or swear by them or serve them or bow down to them.

    ⁸But cling to the Lord your God as you have done to this day.

    ⁹For the Lord has driven out from before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no man has been able to withstand you to this day.

    ¹⁰One man of you shall put to flight a thousand, for it is the Lord your God Who fights for you, as He promised you.

    ¹¹Be very watchful of yourselves, therefore, to ^[b]love the Lord your God.

    ¹²For if you turn back and adhere to the remnant of these nations left among you and make marriages with them, you marrying their women and they yours,

    ¹³Know with certainty that the Lord your God will not continue to drive these nations from before you; but they shall be a snare and trap to you, and a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

    ¹⁴And behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. Know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God promised concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one thing of them has failed.

    ¹⁵But just as all good things which the Lord promised you have come to you, so will the Lord carry out [His] every [warning of] evil upon you, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

    ¹⁶If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, if you serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land He has given you.

Joshua 24

    ²Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt in olden times beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, and they served other gods.

    ³And I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River and led him through all the land of Canaan and multiplied his offspring. I gave him Isaac,

    ⁴And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.

    ⁵I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in the midst of it; and afterward I brought you out.

    ⁶I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.

    ⁷When they cried to the Lord, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness a long time [forty years].^(D)

    ⁸I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived on the other side of the Jordan; they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land, and I destroyed them before you.

    ⁹Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam son of Beor to curse you.

    ¹⁰But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I delivered you out of Balak's hand.^(E)

    ¹¹You went over the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the men of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I gave them into your hands.

    ¹²I sent the ^[c]hornet [that is, the terror of you] before you, which drove the two kings of the Amorites out before you; but it was not by your sword or by your bow.^(F)

    ¹³I have given you a land for which you did not labor and cities you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat from vineyards and olive yards you did not plant.

    ¹⁴Now therefore, [reverently] fear the Lord and serve Him in sincerity and in truth; put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the [Euphrates] River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

    ¹⁵And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.

    ¹⁶The people answered, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord to serve other gods;

    ¹⁷For it is the Lord our God Who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, Who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the peoples through whom we passed.

    ¹⁸And the Lord drove out before us all the people, the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord, for He is our God.

    ¹⁹And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the Lord, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

    ²⁰If you forsake the Lord and ^[d]serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.

    ²¹And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the Lord.

    ²²Then Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses.

    ²³Then put away, said he, the foreign gods that are among you and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

    ²⁴The people said to Joshua, The Lord our God we will serve; His voice we will obey.

    ²⁵So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

    ²⁶And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God; and he took a great stone and set it up there under an oak that was in [the court of] the sanctuary of the Lord.

    ²⁷And Joshua said to all the people, See, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the Lord spoke to us; so it shall be a witness against you, lest [afterward] you lie (pretend) and deny your God.

    ²⁸So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

    ²⁹After this, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being 110 years old.

    ³⁰They buried him at the edge of his inheritance in Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

    ³¹Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the works the Lord had done for Israel.

    ³²And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem in the portion of ground Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for 100 pieces of money; and it became the inheritance of the Josephites.

    ³³And Eleazar son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah [on the hill] of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

View commentary related to this passage

Luke 3

    ²In the high priesthood of Annas and Caiaphas, the Word of God [^[a]concerning the attainment through Christ of salvation in the kingdom of God] came to John son of Zachariah in the wilderness (desert).

    ³And he went into all the country round about the Jordan, preaching a baptism of repentance (^[b]of hearty amending of their ways, with abhorrence of past wrongdoing) unto the forgiveness of sin.

    ⁴As it is written in the book of the words of Isaiah the prophet, The voice of one crying in the wilderness [shouting in the desert]: Prepare the way of the Lord, make His beaten paths straight.

    ⁵Every valley and ravine shall be filled up, and every mountain and hill shall be leveled; and the crooked places shall be made straight, and the rough roads shall be made smooth;

    ⁶And all mankind shall see (behold and ^[c]understand and at last acknowledge) the salvation of God (the deliverance from eternal death ^[d]decreed by God).^(A)

    ⁷So he said to the crowds who came out to be baptized by him, You offspring of vipers! Who ^[e]secretly warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

    ⁸Bear fruits that are deserving and consistent with [your] repentance [that is, ^[f]conduct worthy of a heart changed, a heart abhorring sin]. And do not begin to say to yourselves, We have Abraham as our father; for I tell you that God is able from these stones to raise up descendants for Abraham.

    ⁹Even now the ax is laid to the root of the trees, so that every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and cast into the fire.

    ¹⁰And the multitudes asked him, Then what shall we do?

    ¹¹And he replied to them, He who has two tunics (undergarments), let him share with him who has none; and he who has food, let him do it the same way.

    ¹²Even tax collectors came to be baptized, and they said to him, Teacher, what shall we do?

    ¹³And he said to them, Exact and collect no more than the fixed amount appointed you.

    ¹⁴Those serving as soldiers also asked him, And we, what shall we do? And he replied to them, Never demand or enforce ^[g]by terrifying people or by accusing wrongfully, and always be satisfied with your rations (supplies) and with your allowance (wages).

    ¹⁵As the people were in suspense and waiting expectantly, and everybody reasoned and questioned in their hearts concerning John, whether he perhaps might be the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed One).

    ¹⁶John answered them all by saying, I baptize you with water; but He Who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of Whose sandals I am not fit to unfasten. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

    ¹⁷His winnowing shovel (fork) is in His hand to thoroughly clear and cleanse His [threshing] floor and to gather the wheat and store it in His granary, but the chaff He will burn with fire that cannot be extinguished.

    ¹⁸So with many other [various] appeals and admonitions he preached the good news (the Gospel) to the people.

    ¹⁹But Herod the tetrarch, who had been [repeatedly] told about his fault and reproved with rebuke ^[h]producing conviction by [John] for [having] Herodias, his brother's wife, and for all the wicked things that Herod had done,

    ²⁰Added this to them all--that he shut up John in prison.

    ²¹Now when all the people were baptized, and when Jesus also had been baptized, and [while He was still] praying, the [visible] heaven was opened

    ²²And the Holy Spirit descended upon Him in bodily form like a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are My Son, My Beloved! In You I am well pleased and find delight!^(B)

    ²³Jesus Himself, when He began [His ministry], was about thirty years of age, being the Son, as was supposed, of Joseph, the son of Heli,

    ²⁴The son of Matthat, the son of Levi, the son of Melchi, the son of Jannai, the son of Joseph,

    ²⁵The son of Mattathias, the son of Amos, the son of Nahum, the son of Esli, the son of Naggai,

    ²⁶The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,

    ²⁷The son of Joanan, the son of Rhesa, the son of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, the son of Neri,

    ²⁸The son of Melchi, the son of Addi, the son of Cosam, the son of Elmadam, the son of Er,

    ²⁹The son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

    ³⁰The son of Simeon, the son of Judah, the son of Joseph, the son of Jonam, the son of Eliakim,

    ³¹The son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

    ³²The son of Jesse, the son of Obed, the son of Boaz, the son of Salmon (Sala), the son of Nahshon,

    ³³The son of Aminadab, the son of Admin, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,

    ³⁴The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

    ³⁵The son of Serug, the son of Reu, the son of Peleg, the son of Eber, the son of Shelah,

    ³⁶The son of Cainan, the son of Arphaxad, the son of Shem, the son of Noah, the son of Lamech,

    ³⁷The son of Methuselah, the son of Enoch, the son of Jared, the son of Mahalaleel, the son of Cainan,

    ³⁸The son of Enos, the son of Seth, the son of Adam, the son of God.^(C)