Joshua 22:23

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

1 Samuel 20:16

And Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord take vengeance on David’s enemies.”

Deuteronomy 18:19

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

Ezekiel 33:8

If I say to the wicked, O wicked one, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from his way, that wicked person 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 person is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood I will require at the watchman’s hand.

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 person shall die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require at your hand.

2 Chronicles 24:22

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

Deuteronomy 12:11

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

Genesis 9:4

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

Joshua 22:24

No, 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?