Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may
perform the service of Jehovah before His face (i.e., before the tabernacle in which
Jehovah was enthroned), with our burnt-offerings, slain-offerings, and peaceofferings,"
- in order, as they repeat in v. 27b from vv. 24, 25, that they might not be
denied a part in Jehovah in time to come. For if it should so happen in time to come,
that this should be said to them and to their descendants, they would say (or reply),
"Behold the copy of the altar of Jehovah, which our fathers made, not for burntofferings,"
etc. (v. 28b, as in vv. 26b, 27a). For this reason they had built the altar
according to the pattern of the altar before the tabernacle, and that not in their own
land, but on the western side of the Jordan, where the dwelling-place of Jehovah was
standing, as a witness that they worshipped one and the same God with the tribes on
this side.
Joshua 22:29
God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from
following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for
sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
The speakers conclude with an expression of horror at the thought of rebelling against
Jehovah. mimenuw (OT:4480) laanuw (OT:3807a ) chaaliylaah (OT:2486), "far be
it from us away from Him ( mimenuw (OT:4480) = meeyhaaowh , 1 Sam 24:7;
26:11; 1 Kings 21:3), to rebel against Jehovah," etc.
Joshua 22:30-31
And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of
the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased
them.
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