Josué 22:24

24 »La verdad es que construimos este altar porque tenemos miedo de que, en el futuro, sus descendientes les digan a los nuestros: “¿Qué derecho tienen ustedes de adorar al Señor
, Dios de Israel?

Josué 22:24 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 22:24

And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing,
&c.] So far they suggest were they from doing this, in order to turn from the pure worship of God, and introduce idolatrous worship, that it was to guard against everything of that kind for the future; and through fear of it, and anxiety and distress of mind, lest some time or another there should be any temptation to it in their posterity, had they built this altar:

saying, in time to come your children might speak unto our children;
or "tomorrow" ^F13, in a short time after your heads, and ours, are laid in the grave, your posterity will accost us:

saying, what have you to do with the Lord God of Israel?
you are aliens and strangers from the commonwealth of Israel, live in a foreign land, and not in the land, of Canaan; are separated from us by the river Jordan, are a different people from us, and have nothing to do with the tabernacle of the Lord, and the service of it, or with the altar of the Lord, to offer sacrifice on it. Now as they returned to their own country, or when got there, such anxious thoughts and fears rose up in their minds, which they communicated to one another, and thought of this expedient to prevent what would be so fatal to their posterity. The Targum is,

``you have no part in the Word of the Lord God of Israel;''

see ( John 13:8 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F13 (rxm) "cras", Pagninus, Montanus

Josué 22:24 In-Context

22 —¡El Señor
, el Poderoso, es Dios! ¡El Señor
, el Poderoso, es Dios! Él conoce la verdad, ¡y que Israel también la sepa! Nosotros no construimos el altar por traición o en rebeldía contra el Señor
. Si fuera así, no nos perdonen la vida ni un día más.

23 Si en verdad construimos un altar para nosotros, para apartarnos del Señor
o para presentar ofrendas quemadas, ofrendas de grano u ofrendas de paz, que el Señor
mismo nos castigue.

24 »La verdad es que construimos este altar porque tenemos miedo de que, en el futuro, sus descendientes les digan a los nuestros: “¿Qué derecho tienen ustedes de adorar al Señor
, Dios de Israel?

25 El Señor
ha puesto el río Jordán como una barrera entre nuestra gente y ustedes, gente de Rubén y de Gad. Ustedes no tienen derecho de afirmar que pertenecen al Señor
”. Así, los descendientes de ustedes podrían impedirles a los nuestros que adoraran al Señor
.

26 »Por eso decidimos construir el altar, no para presentar ofrendas quemadas o sacrificios,