²⁴ Then Gideon built an altar there to the Lord and called it, ^(A)The Lord Is Peace. To this day it still stands at ^(B)Ophrah, which belongs to the Abiezrites.

¹⁵ And Moses ^(A)built an altar and called the name of it, The Lord Is My Banner,

¹⁴ So Abraham called the name of that place, ^(A)“The Lord will provide”;^[a] as it is said to this day, “On the mount of the Lord it shall be provided.”^[b]

³² And Gideon the son of Joash died ^(A)in a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, ^(B)at Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

³⁵ The circumference of the city shall be 18,000 cubits. And ^(A)the name of the city from that time on shall be, ^(B)The Lord Is There.”

⁶ In his days Judah will be saved, and ^(A)Israel will ^(B)dwell securely. And this is the name by which he will be called: ^(C)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

¹⁶ In those days Judah will be saved, ^(A)and Jerusalem will dwell securely. And this is the name by which it will be called: ^(B)‘The Lord is our righteousness.’

⁴ And the next day the people rose early and ^(A)built there an altar and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings.

²⁶ Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, ²⁷ but to be ^(A)a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we ^(B)do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’ ²⁸ And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be ^(C)a witness between us and you.”’

The Eastern Tribes' Altar of Witness

¹⁰ And when they came to the region of the Jordan that is in the land of Canaan, the people of Reuben and the people of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of imposing size.