Joshua 22:29

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away this day from following the Lord by building an altar for burnt offering, grain offering, or sacrifice other than the altar of the Lord our God that stands before his tabernacle!’ ”

Cross References

Genesis 44:17

But he said, “Far be it from me that I should do so! Only the one in whose possession the cup was found shall be my slave, but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Genesis 44:7

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants that they should do such a thing!

1 Kings 21:3

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid that I should give you my ancestral inheritance.”

2 Kings 18:22

But if you say to me, ‘We rely on the Lord our God,’ is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

2 Chronicles 32:12

Was it not this same Hezekiah who took away his high places and his altars and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘Before one altar you shall worship, and upon it you shall make your offerings’?

Romans 3:6

By no means! For then how could God judge the world?

Romans 6:2

By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?

Romans 9:14

What then are we to say? Is there injustice on God’s part? By no means!

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 22:23

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.

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 22:30

When the priest Phinehas and the chiefs of the congregation, the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the Reubenites and the Gadites and the Manassites spoke, they were satisfied.

Joshua 24:16

Then the people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods,

1 Samuel 12:23

Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you, and I will instruct you in the good and the right way.