Joshua 22:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ for building an altar to turn away from following the Lord; or if we did so to offer burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings on it, may the Lord himself take vengeance.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ that we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ If we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord, or if we did so to offer on it burnt offerings or cereal offerings or peace offerings, may the Lord Himself take vengeance.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

²³ If we’ve built ourselves an altar to turn away from following the LORD or to offer on it an entirely burned offering or gift offering, or to perform well-being sacrifices on it, let the LORD himself seek punishment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ And if we have acted with a mind so that we might present upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace offerings, let him inquire and judge.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ And if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and victims of peace-offerings, let him require and judge.

Joshua 22:23 Cross References

Genesis 9:4

Only you shall not eat flesh with its life, that is, its blood.

2 Chronicles 24:22

Thus Joash the king did not remember the kindness which Jehoiada, Zechariah's father, had shown him, but killed his son. And when he was dying, he said, “May the Lord see and avenge!”

Ezekiel 3:18

If I say to the wicked, ‘You shall surely die,’ and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, in order to save his life, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:6

But if the watchman sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet, so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes, and takes any one of them; that man is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman's hand.

Ezekiel 33:8

If I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then to the place which the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell there, thither you shall bring all that I command you: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and the offering that you present, and all your votive offerings which you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 18:19

And whoever will not give heed to my words which he shall speak in my name, I myself will require it of him.

Joshua 22:24

Nay, but we did it from fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, ‘What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?

1 Samuel 20:16

let not the name of Jonathan be cut off from the house of David. And may the Lord take vengeance on David's enemies.”