Joshua 22:4-14

4 Now that the LORD your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

5 But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

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

7 (To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,

8 saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing—and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

9 So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

10 When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.

11 And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,

12 the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

13 So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

14 With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.

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Joshua 22:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 22

The war with the Canaanites being ended, Joshua called to him the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, who came over Jordan with him to assist in it, and commended them for their obedience to Moses and to himself, and to God by them; and then dismissed them, with some instructions to keep the ways and worship of God, and with his blessing upon them, Jos 22:1-8; upon which they returned to their country, and when they came to the borders of it set up an altar by Jordan, Jos 22:9,10; which, when the children of Israel heard of, it gave them great offence, they fearing they were going to make a revolt from the pure worship of God, and therefore sent a deputation of princes to them, with the son of the high priest, to inquire into the matter, and expostulate with them about it, who did, Jos 22:11-20; and who received from them a very satisfactory answer, Jos 22:21-31; with which they returned and reported to the children of Israel, and which gave them pleasure, Jos 22:32-34.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 23

1. S Exodus 33:14
2. Numbers 32:22; Deuteronomy 3:20
3. Numbers 32:18; S Joshua 1:13-15
4. Isaiah 43:22; Malachi 3:14
5. Joshua 23:11
6. S Deuteronomy 5:29
7. S Deuteronomy 6:5; Deuteronomy 6:6,17
8. S Genesis 24:60; S Exodus 39:43
9. S Numbers 32:19; Numbers 32:33; S Joshua 12:5
10. Joshua 17:2; Joshua 17:2,5
11. S Joshua 14:13; Luke 24:50
12. S Deuteronomy 20:14
13. S Numbers 31:22
14. S Numbers 31:27
15. S Genesis 49:27; 1 Samuel 30:16; 2 Samuel 1:1; Isaiah 9:3
16. Joshua 18:1
17. S Numbers 32:26; Numbers 32:26,29
18. Joshua 18:17
19. ver 19,26-27; Isaiah 19:19; Isaiah 56:7
20. Joshua 18:1
21. S Numbers 25:7
22. Numbers 3:32; Joshua 24:33
23. ver 32; S Numbers 1:4

Joshua 22:4-14

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Joshua 22:4-14 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 22

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