Joshua 22:28

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 25:40 : 40 Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.
  • 2 Kgs 16:10 : 10 When King Ahaz went to meet with King Tiglath-pileser of Assyria in Damascus, he saw the altar there. King Ahaz sent to Uriah the priest a drawing of the altar and a blueprint for its design.
  • Ezek 43:10-11 : 10 “As for you, son of man, describe the temple to the house of Israel, so that they will be ashamed of their sins and measure the pattern. 11 When they are ashamed of all that they have done, make known to them the design of the temple, its pattern, its exits and entrances, and its whole design– all its statutes, its entire design, and all its laws; write it all down in their sight, so that they may observe its entire design and all its statutes and do them.
  • Heb 8:5 : 5 The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 22:26-27
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    26So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

    27but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’

  • Josh 22:23-24
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    83%

    23If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.

    24We swear we have done this because we were worried that in the future your descendants would say to our descendants,‘What relationship do you have with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Josh 22:29
    82%

    29Far be it from us to rebel against the LORD by turning back today from following after the LORD by building an altar for burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace aside from the altar of the LORD our God located in front of his dwelling place!”

  • Josh 22:34
    75%

    34The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar,“Surely it is a Reminder to us that the LORD is God.”

  • Josh 22:16
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    16“The entire community of the LORD says,‘Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the LORD? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the LORD.

  • Josh 24:27
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    27Joshua said to all the people,“Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.”

  • Josh 22:18-19
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    18Now today you dare to turn back from following the LORD! You are rebelling today against the LORD; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

    19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.

  • Josh 4:6
    73%

    6The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday,‘Why are these stones important to you?’

  • 2 Kgs 18:22
    72%

    22Perhaps you will tell me,‘We are trusting in the LORD our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem,‘You must worship at this altar in Jerusalem.’

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    72%

    6For our fathers were unfaithful; they did what is evil in the sight of the LORD our God and abandoned him! They turned away from the LORD’s dwelling place and rejected him.

  • Acts 7:44
    71%

    44Our ancestors had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as God who spoke to Moses ordered him to make it according to the design he had seen.

  • Jer 42:5
    71%

    5They answered Jeremiah,“May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not do just as the LORD your God sends you to tell us to do.

  • Deut 6:20
    71%

    20Exhortation to Remember the Past When your children ask you later on,“What are the stipulations, statutes, and ordinances that the LORD our God commanded you?”

  • 1 Chr 22:1
    71%

    1David then said,“This is the place where the temple of the LORD God will be, along with the altar for burnt sacrifices for Israel.”

  • Isa 36:7
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    7Perhaps you will tell me,‘We are trusting in the LORD our God.’ But Hezekiah is the one who eliminated his high places and altars and then told the people of Judah and Jerusalem,‘You must worship at this altar.’

  • Gen 26:28
    71%

    28They replied,“We could plainly see that the LORD is with you. So we decided there should be a pact between us– between us and you. Allow us to make a treaty with you

  • Heb 8:5
    71%

    5The place where they serve is a sketch and shadow of the heavenly sanctuary, just as Moses was warned by God as he was about to complete the tabernacle. For he says,“See that you make everything according to the design shown to you on the mountain.”

  • Deut 27:6
    70%

    6You must build the altar of the LORD your God with whole stones and offer burnt offerings on it to the LORD your God.

  • Deut 5:3
    70%

    3He did not make this covenant with our ancestors but with us, we who are here today, all of us living now.

  • Num 18:5
    70%

    5You will be responsible for the care of the sanctuary and the care of the altar, so that there will be no more wrath on the Israelites.

  • Exod 12:26
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    26When your children ask you,‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’–

  • Ps 78:5-6
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    5He established a rule in Jacob; he set up a law in Israel. He commanded our ancestors to make his deeds known to their descendants,

    6so that the next generation, children yet to be born, might know about them. They will grow up and tell their descendants about them.

  • Exod 20:25
    70%

    25If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.

  • Judg 11:10
    70%

    10The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah,“The LORD will judge any grievance you have against us, if we do not do as you say.”

  • 2 Chr 20:8
    70%

    8They settled down in it and built in it a temple to honor you, saying,

  • Deut 31:26
    69%

    26“Take this scroll of the law and place it beside the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God. It will remain there as a witness against you,

  • Ezek 43:18
    69%

    18Then he said to me:“Son of man, this is what the Sovereign LORD says: These are the statutes of the altar: On the day it is built to offer up burnt offerings on it and to sprinkle blood on it,

  • Deut 29:15
    69%

    15but with whoever stands with us here today before the LORD our God as well as those not with us here today.

  • 1 Kgs 8:21
    69%

    21and set up in it a place for the ark containing the covenant the LORD made with our ancestors when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.”

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    69%

    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Exod 27:8
    69%

    8You are to make the altar hollow, out of boards. Just as it was shown you on the mountain, so they must make it.

  • Heb 13:10
    69%

    10We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.

  • Deut 26:4
    69%

    4The priest will then take the basket from you and set it before the altar of the LORD your God.

  • Jer 44:17
    69%

    17Instead we will do everything we vowed we would do. We will sacrifice and pour out drink offerings to the goddess called the Queen of Heaven just as we and our ancestors, our kings, and our leaders previously did in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, were well-off, and had no troubles.

  • Josh 4:21
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    21He told the Israelites,“When your children someday ask their fathers,‘What do these stones represent?’

  • Exod 25:40
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    40Now be sure to make them according to the pattern you were shown on the mountain.

  • 2 Chr 29:10
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    10Now I intend to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, so that he may relent from his raging anger.

  • Ps 78:3
    69%

    3What we have heard and learned– that which our ancestors have told us–

  • Josh 24:16
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    16The people responded,“Far be it from us to abandon the LORD so we can worship other gods!

  • Exod 25:9
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    9According to all that I am showing you– the pattern of the tabernacle and the pattern of all its furnishings– you must make it exactly so.

  • 1 Chr 21:29
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    29Now the LORD’s tabernacle(which Moses had made in the wilderness) and the altar for burnt sacrifices were at that time at the worship center in Gibeon.

  • Jer 17:2
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    2Their children are always thinking about their altars and their sacred poles dedicated to the goddess Asherah, set up beside the green trees on the high hills

  • Ezek 20:32
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    32“‘What you plan will never happen. You say,“We will be like the nations, like the clans of the lands, who serve gods of wood and stone.”

  • Exod 29:37
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    37For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.

  • Prov 22:28
    69%

    28Do not move an ancient boundary stone which was put in place by your ancestors.

  • Josh 22:11
    69%

    11The Israelites received this report:“Look, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar at the entrance to the land of Canaan, at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side.”