Joshua 22:26

Modern English Version

“So we said to each other, ‘Let us build this altar, not for burnt offering or sacrifice,

Cross References

Isaiah 19:19

In that day there shall be an altar to the Lord in the midst of the land of Egypt, and a pillar to the Lord at its border.

Joshua 22:25

The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you, the descendants of Reuben and Gad. You have no share in the Lord!’ In this way your descendants might make our descendants to stop worshipping the Lord.

Joshua 22:27

but as a witness for us, for you, and for the generations after us, that we may perform the service of the Lord before Him with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings, and in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, “You have no share in the Lord!” ’

Joshua 22:29

“God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord by turning from following the Lord today by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, and sacrifices other than the altar of the Lord God that stands before His tabernacle!”

Judges 6:24

Then Gideon built an altar for the Lord there and called it The Lord Is Peace. Even to this day it stands in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.