Giosué 22:12

12 Quando i figliuoli d’Israele udiron questo, tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele si riunì a Sciloh per salire a muover loro guerra.

Giosué 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 ) .

Giosué 22:12 In-Context

10 E come giunsero alla regione del Giordano che appartiene al paese di Canaan, i figliuoli di Ruben, i figliuoli di Gad e la mezza tribù di Manasse vi costruirono un altare, presso il Giordano: un grande altare, che colpiva la vista.
11 I figliuoli d’Israele udirono che si diceva: "Ecco, i figliuoli di Ruben, i figliuoli di Gad e la mezza tribù di Manasse hanno costruito un altare di faccia al paese di Canaan, nella regione del Giordano, dal lato de’ figliuoli d’Israele".
12 Quando i figliuoli d’Israele udiron questo, tutta la raunanza de’ figliuoli d’Israele si riunì a Sciloh per salire a muover loro guerra.
13 E i figliuoli d’Israele mandarono ai figliuoli di Ruben, ai figliuoli di Gad e alla mezza tribù di Manasse, nel paese di Galaad, Fineas, figliuolo del sacerdote Eleazar,
14 e con lui dieci principi, un principe per ciascuna casa paterna di tutte le tribù d’Israele:
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