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Joshua 22:21-23
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Joshua 22:21-23
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21 The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders[a] of the Israelite clans: 22 “El, God, the Lord![b] El, God, the Lord! He knows the truth![c] Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the Lord,[d] don’t spare us[e] today! 23 If we have built[f] an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the Lord by making[g] burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering[h] tokens of peace[i] on it, the Lord himself will punish us.[j]
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- Joshua 22:21 tn Heb “answered and spoke to the heads of.”
- Joshua 22:22 sn Israel’s God is here identified with three names: (1) אֵל (ʾel), “El” (or “God”); (2) אֱלֹהִים (ʾelohim), “Elohim” (or “God”), and (3) יְהוָה (yehvah), “Yahweh” (or “the Lord”). The name אֵל (ʾel, “El”) is often compounded with titles, for example, El Elyon, “God Most High.”
- Joshua 22:22 tn Heb “he knows.”
- Joshua 22:22 tn Heb “if in rebellion or if in unfaithfulness against the Lord.”
- Joshua 22:22 tn Heb “do not save us.” The verb form is singular, being addressed to either collective Israel or the Lord himself. The LXX translates in the third person.
- Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “by building.” The prepositional phrase may be subordinated to what precedes, “if in unfaithfulness…by building.”
- Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “or if to offer up.”
- Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “or if to make.”
- Joshua 22:23 tn Or “peace offerings.”
- Joshua 22:23 tn Heb “the Lord, he will seek.” Perhaps this is a self-imprecation in an oath, “may the Lord himself punish us.”
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