Josué 22:12

12 Quando os filhos de Israel ouviram isto, congregaram-se todos em Siló, para subirem a guerrear contra eles.

Josué 22:12 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 22:12

And when the children of Israel heard [of it]
Of the building the altar in the above place, namely, the nine tribes and a half settled in the land of Canaan:

the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves
together at Shiloh;
where the tabernacle and altar of the Lord were, whose cause they undertook to avenge, being injured as they imagined by the altar the other tribes had built, and where they could consult the Lord by Urim and Thummim, if needful; hither they repaired from the several places around, where their tribes were settled; not the whole body of the people, but their heads and representatives:

to go up to war against them;
to consult about it, and to prepare for it, which they were obliged to do by the law of God, as in the case of a city, so of a tribe drawn aside to idolatry; and which they imagined was the case of these tribes, or at least what they had done had a tendency to apostasy from the true worship of God, which they were zealous to defend at the hazard of their lives, and though it should issue in an extirpation of one or more of their tribes; see ( Deuteronomy 13:12-16 ) .

Josué 22:12 In-Context

10 Tendo chegado � região junto ao Jordão, ainda na terra de Canaã, os filhos de Rúben os filhos de Gade e a meia tribo de Manassés edificaram ali, � beira do Jordão, um altar de grandes proporções.

11 E os filhos de Israel ouviram dizer: Eis que os filhos de Rúben os filhos de Gade e a meia tribo de Manassés edificaram um altar na fronteira da terra de Canaã, na região junto ao Jordão, da banda que pertence aos filhos de Israel.

12 Quando os filhos de Israel ouviram isto, congregaram-se todos em Siló, para subirem a guerrear contra eles.

13 Então os filhos de Israel enviaram aos filhos de Rúben aos filhos de Gade e � meia tribo de Manassés, � terra de Gileade, Finéias, filho de Eleazar, o sacerdote,

14 e com ele dez príncipes, um príncipe de cada casa paterna de todas as tribos de Israel; e eles eram os cabeças das suas casas paternas entre os milhares de Israel.