Joshua 22:23

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Genesis 9:4

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

2 Chronicles 24:22

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

Ezekiel 3:18

When I say to the wicked, “You shall surely die,” and you give them no warning and do not speak to warn the wicked from their wicked way in order to save their lives, those wicked persons shall die for their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:6

But if the sentinel sees the sword coming and does not blow the trumpet so that the people are not warned, and the sword comes and takes any of them, they are taken away in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at the sentinel’s hand.

Ezekiel 33:8

If I say to the wicked, “O wicked ones, you shall surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked to turn from their ways, the wicked shall die in their iniquity, but their blood I will require at your hand.

Deuteronomy 12:11

then you shall bring everything that I command you to the place that the Lord your God will choose as a dwelling for his name: your burnt offerings and your sacrifices, your tithes and your donations, and all your choice votive gifts that you vow to the Lord.

Deuteronomy 18:19

Anyone who does not heed the words that the prophet shall speak in my name, I myself will hold accountable.

Joshua 22:24

No! 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

Thus Jonathan made a covenant with the house of David, saying, “May the Lord seek out the enemies of David.”