Joshua 22:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

but to be a witness between us and you and between the generations after us, that we do perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and offerings of well-being, so that your children may never say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.” ’

Cross References

Genesis 31:48

Laban said, “This heap is a witness between you and me today.” Therefore he called it Galeed

Genesis 31:52

This heap is a witness, and the pillar is a witness, that I will not pass beyond this heap to you, and you will not pass beyond this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

Psalm 16:5

The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot.

Isaiah 19:19

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

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.

Joshua 22:10

When they came to the region near the Jordan that lies in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, an altar of great size.

Joshua 22:26

Therefore we said, ‘Let us now build an altar, not for burnt offering nor for sacrifice,

Joshua 22:28

And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we could say, “Look at this copy of the altar of the Lord that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings nor for sacrifice, but to be a witness between us and you.”

Joshua 22:34

The Reubenites and the Gadites called the altar Witness, “for,” they said, “it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”

Joshua 24:27

Joshua said to all the people, “See, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness against you if you deal falsely with your God.”

1 Samuel 7:12

Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah and named it Ebenezer, for he said, “Thus far the Lord has helped us.”