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Joshua 22:14-16
Evangelical Heritage Version
Joshua 22:14-16
Evangelical Heritage Version
14 Together with him they sent ten tribal leaders, a leader for each fathers’ house[a] for all the tribes of Israel. Each one was a head of his fathers’ house according to the divisions[b] of Israel.
15 They came to the people of Reuben, to the people of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh in the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them. They said, 16 “This is what the whole community of the Lord has said: Why have you committed such an unfaithful act against the God of Israel by turning from the Lord today? When you built an altar for yourselves, you rebelled against the Lord today.
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- Joshua 22:14 Each successive generation of tribal elders were the fathers of that generation. The fathers’ house was a social division that seems to have been smaller than the tribe or clan but larger than the immediate family. The term, however, seems to have been used for more than one level of the social structure of Israel because of the importance of kinship and descent in Israel’s social structure.
- Joshua 22:14 Literally the thousands
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