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Joshua 21:43 (NIV)

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had sworn to give their ancestors, and they took possession of it and settled there.

Joshua 21:44 (NIV)

The Lord gave them rest on every side, just as he had sworn to their ancestors. Not one of their enemies withstood them; the Lord gave all their enemies into their hands.

Joshua 21:45 (NIV)

Not one of all the Lord ’s good promises to Israel failed; every one was fulfilled.

Joshua 22:2 (NIV)

and said to them, “You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded.

Joshua 22:3 (NIV)

For a long time now—to this very day—you have not deserted your fellow Israelites but have carried out the mission the Lord your God gave you.

Joshua 22:4 (NIV)

Now that the Lord your God has given them rest as he promised, return to your homes in the land that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of the Jordan.

But be very careful to keep the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you: to love the Lord your God, to walk in obedience to him, to keep his commands, to hold fast to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.”

Joshua 22:6 (NIV)

Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their homes.

Joshua 22:7 (NIV)

(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half of the tribe Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan along with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he blessed them,

Joshua 22:8 (NIV)

saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing—and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

Joshua 22:9 (NIV)

So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.

Joshua 22:10 (NIV)

When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.

Joshua 22:11 (NIV)

And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,

Joshua 22:12 (NIV)

the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.

Joshua 22:13 (NIV)

So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 22:14 (NIV)

With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.

Joshua 22:15 (NIV)

When they went to Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh—they said to them:

Joshua 22:16 (NIV)

“The whole assembly of the Lord says: ‘How could you break faith with the God of Israel like this? How could you turn away from the Lord and build yourselves an altar in rebellion against him now?

Joshua 22:17 (NIV)

Was not the sin of Peor enough for us? Up to this very day we have not cleansed ourselves from that sin, even though a plague fell on the community of the Lord !

Joshua 22:18 (NIV)

And are you now turning away from the Lord ? “ ‘If you rebel against the Lord today, tomorrow he will be angry with the whole community of Israel.

Joshua 22:19 (NIV)

If the land you possess is defiled, come over to the Lord ’s land, where the Lord ’s tabernacle stands, and share the land with us. But do not rebel against the Lord or against us by building an altar for yourselves, other than the altar of the Lord our God.