Joshua 22:29

Webster's Bible (1833)

Far be it from us that we should rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice, besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent.

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Referenced Verses

  • Josh 24:16 : 16 The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;
  • Deut 12:13-14 : 13 Take heed to yourself that you don't offer your burnt offerings in every place that you see; 14 but in the place which Yahweh shall choose in one of your tribes, there you shall offer your burnt offerings, and there you shall do all that I command you.
  • Josh 22:23 : 23 that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Yahweh himself require it;
  • Josh 22:26 : 26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
  • Gen 44:7 : 7 They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!
  • Gen 44:17 : 17 He said, "Far be it from me that I should do so. The man in whose hand the cup is found, he will be my bondservant; but as for you, go up in peace to your father."
  • 1 Sam 12:23 : 23 Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Yahweh in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.
  • 1 Kgs 21:3 : 3 Naboth said to Ahab, Yahweh forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers to you.
  • 2 Kgs 18:22 : 22 But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?
  • 2 Chr 32:12 : 12 Has not the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, You shall worship before one altar, and on it shall you burn incense?
  • Rom 3:6 : 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?
  • Rom 6:2 : 2 May it never be! We who died to sin, how could we live in it any longer?
  • Rom 9:14 : 14 What shall we say then? Is there unrighteousness with God? May it never be!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 22:21-28
    8 verses
    87%

    21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to the heads of the thousands of Israel,

    22The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel he shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't save us this day),

    23that we have built us an altar to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon, let Yahweh himself require it;

    24and if we have not [rather] out of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

    25for Yahweh has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Yahweh.

    26Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

    27but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not tell our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh.

    28Therefore said we, It shall be, when they so tell us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you.

  • Josh 22:15-19
    5 verses
    84%

    15They came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,

    16Thus says the whole congregation of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh?

    17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day, although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh,

    18that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

    19However, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Yahweh our God.

  • Josh 24:16
    79%

    16The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

  • 2 Chr 29:6
    74%

    6For our fathers have trespassed, and done that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him, and have turned away their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and turned their backs.

  • 2 Chr 29:10
    74%

    10Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with Yahweh, the God of Israel, that his fierce anger may turn away from us.

  • Deut 12:4
    73%

    4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    73%

    35with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and charged them, saying, You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them:

  • 1 Chr 21:29
    72%

    29For the tent of Yahweh, which Moses made in the wilderness, and the altar of burnt offering, were at that time in the high place at Gibeon.

  • Josh 22:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10When they came to the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look on.

    11The children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar in the forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertains to the children of Israel.

  • Judg 21:4
    72%

    4It happened on the next day that the people rose early, and built there an altar, and offered burnt offerings and peace-offerings.

  • Ezra 9:14
    72%

    14shall we again break your commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? would not you be angry with us until you had consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

  • Josh 22:34
    72%

    34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.

  • Exod 8:26-27
    2 verses
    72%

    26Moses said, "It isn't appropriate to do so; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Yahweh our God. Behold, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and won't they stone us?

    27We will go three days' journey into the wilderness, and sacrifice to Yahweh our God, as he shall command us."

  • Deut 29:18
    72%

    18lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from Yahweh our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;

  • Josh 24:18
    71%

    18and Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.

  • Heb 13:10
    71%

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

  • 2 Chr 30:8
    71%

    8Now don't you be stiff-necked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves to Yahweh, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve Yahweh your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

  • Deut 27:6
    71%

    6You shall build the altar of Yahweh your God of uncut stones; and you shall offer burnt offerings thereon to Yahweh your God:

  • Judg 2:2
    71%

    2and you shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; you shall break down their altars. But you have not listened to my voice: why have you done this?

  • Deut 29:15
    71%

    15but with him who stands here with us this day before Yahweh our God, and also with him who is not here with us this day

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    71%

    12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, You shall not do this thing.

  • 2 Kgs 18:22
    70%

    22But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God; isn't that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem?

  • Neh 10:30
    70%

    30and that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons;

  • Deut 16:21
    70%

    21You shall not plant you an Asherah of any kind of tree beside the altar of Yahweh your God, which you shall make you.

  • Exod 20:25
    70%

    25If you make me an altar of stone, you shall not build it of hewn stones; for if you lift up your tool on it, you have polluted it.

  • 1 Chr 22:19
    70%

    19Now set your heart and your soul to seek after Yahweh your God; arise therefore, and build the sanctuary of Yahweh God, to bring the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, and the holy vessels of God, into the house that is to be built to the name of Yahweh.

  • 2 Chr 28:13
    70%

    13and said to them, You shall not bring in the captives here: for you purpose that which will bring on us a trespass against Yahweh, to add to our sins and to our trespass; for our trespass is great, and there is fierce wrath against Israel.

  • Neh 1:7
    70%

    7we have dealt very corruptly against you, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the ordinances, which you commanded your servant Moses.

  • Deut 12:31
    70%

    31You shall not do so to Yahweh your God: for every abomination to Yahweh, which he hates, have they done to their gods; for even their sons and their daughters do they burn in the fire to their gods.

  • Exod 34:15
    70%

    15Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

  • Isa 36:7
    70%

    7But if you tell me, We trust in Yahweh our God: isn't that he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, You shall worship before this altar?

  • Judg 6:26
    70%

    26and build an altar to Yahweh your God on the top of this stronghold, in the orderly manner, and take the second bull, and offer a burnt offering with the wood of the Asherah which you shall cut down.

  • Exod 10:25
    70%

    25Moses said, "You must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice to Yahweh our God.

  • Gen 44:7
    70%

    7They said to him, "Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

  • 2 Chr 13:12
    70%

    12Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't you fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper.

  • Jer 35:9
    70%

    9nor to build houses for us to dwell in; neither have we vineyard, nor field, nor seed:

  • 2 Chr 13:10
    70%

    10But as for us, Yahweh is our God, and we have not forsaken him; and [we have] priests ministering to Yahweh, the sons of Aaron, and the Levites in their work: