OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 22:16

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“The whole congregation of the LORD says, ‘What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away today from following the LORD, in that you have built yourselves an altar, to rebel today against the LORD?

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Verse 16. Lord. Thus Phinees shews that he speaks in the name of those who still continued faithful to the Lord. He imputes the crime of apostacy to Ruben, and so forth that they may declare more openly for what reason they had built this altar. Menochius.

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