Joshua 22:26 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

Navigate

Chapter 22

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34

²⁶Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

Joshua 22:26 —

My Notes

Notes are saved on this device.

← Joshua 22:25 Joshua 22:27 →

Original word meaning

— of 6

Tap any underlined word in the verse to see its original meaning.

Cross-References

No cross-references found for this verse.

Topics

Archery Armies Battle Church and State Cities Citizens Corruption Economy

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 21-29)

We may suppose there was a general convention called of the princes and great men of the separate tribes, to give audience to these ambassadors; or perhaps the army, as it came home, was still encamped in a body, and not yet dispersed; however it was, there were enough to represent the two tribes and a half, and to give their sense. Their reply to the warm remonstrance of the ten tribes is very fa…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 26)

11-29. and the children of Israel heard say--Fame speedily spread intelligence of what the trans-jordanic tribes had done. The act being suspected of some idolatrous design, the tribes rose in a mass, and repairing to the tabernacle at Shiloh, resolved to declare war against the two tribes and a half as apostates from God. On calmer and more mature consideration, however, they determined, in the f…