Joshua 22:27

Christian Standard Bible

Instead, it is to be a witness between us and you,  and between the generations after us, so that we may carry out the worship of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and fellowship offerings.  Then in the future, your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no share in the Lord! ’

Cross References

Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone #— #it will be a witness against us,  for it has heard all the words the Lord said to us, and it will be a witness against you, so that you will not deny your God.”

Genesis 31:48

Then Laban said, “This mound is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore the place was called Galeed

Joshua 22:34

So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar: It  is a witness between us that the Lord is God.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then the Lord your God will choose the place to have his name dwell.  Bring there everything I command you: your burnt offerings, sacrifices, offerings of the tenth, personal contributions,  and all your choice offerings you vow to the Lord.

1 Samuel 7:12

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it upright  between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer,  explaining, “The Lord has helped us to this point.”

Joshua 22:10

When they came to the region of  the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh built a large, impressive altar there by the Jordan.

Genesis 31:52

This mound is a witness and the marker is a witness that I will not pass beyond this mound to you, and you will not pass beyond this mound and this marker to do me harm.

Joshua 22:26

“Therefore we said: Let’s take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offering or sacrifice.

Joshua 22:28

We thought that if they said this to us or to our generations in the future, we would reply: Look at the replica of the Lord’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offering or sacrifice, but as a witness between us and you.

Isaiah 19:19

On that day there will be an altar to the Lord in the center of the land of Egypt and a pillar to the Lord near her border.