约书亚记 22:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

我們決沒有背叛耶和華的意思，今日要轉離不跟從耶和華，在耶和華我們的　神的帳幕前的祭壇以外，另築一座壇，為了獻燔祭、素祭和別的祭。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
我 们 在 耶 和 华 ─ 我 们 　 神 帐 幕 前 的 坛 以 外 ， 另 筑 一 座 坛 ， 为 献 燔 祭 、 素 祭 ， 和 别 的 祭 ， 悖 逆 耶 和 华 ， 今 日 转 去 不 跟 从 他 ， 我 们 断 没 有 这 个 意 思 。

Contextual Overview

²¹ The people from Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh answered, ²² "The Lord is God of gods! The Lord is God of gods! God knows, and we want you to know also. If we have done something wrong, you may kill us. ²³ If we broke God's law, we ask the Lord himself to punish us. We did not build this altar to offer burnt offerings or grain and fellowship offerings. ²⁴ "We did not build it for that reason. We feared that someday your people would not accept us as part of your nation. Then they might say, ‘You cannot worship the Lord , the God of Israel. ²⁵ The Lord made the Jordan River a border between us and you people of Reuben and Gad. You cannot worship the Lord .' So we feared that your children might make our children stop worshiping the Lord . ²⁶ "That is why we decided to build this altar. But it is not for burnt offerings and sacrifices. ²⁷ This altar is proof to you and us and to all our children who will come after us that we worship the Lord with our whole burnt offerings, grain, and fellowship offerings. This was so your children would not say to our children, ‘You are not the Lord 's.' ²⁸ "In the future if your children say that, our children can say, ‘See the altar made by our ancestors. It is exactly like the Lord 's altar, but we do not use it for sacrifices. It shows that we are part of Israel.' ²⁹ "Truly, we don't want to be against the Lord or to stop following him by building an altar for burnt offerings, grain offerings, or sacrifices. We know the only true altar to the Lord our God is in front of the Holy Tent."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God forbid: Joshua 24:16, Genesis 44:7, Genesis 44:17, 1 Samuel 12:23, 1 Kings 21:3, Romans 3:6, Romans 6:2, Romans 9:14

to build: Joshua 22:23, Joshua 22:26, Deuteronomy 12:13, Deuteronomy 12:14, 2 Kings 18:22, 2 Chronicles 32:12

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 20:2 - God forbid

Gill's Notes on the Bible

God forbid that we should rebel against the Lord,.... Against the command of the Lord, who ordered one altar to be made, to which all sacrifices were to be brought from the several parts of the land of Israel, and there to be offered on it; or

"against the Word of the Lord,''

as the Targum, Christ typified both by the altar and the sacrifices on it; and who is but one, one priest, one sacrifice, one altar, one Mediator and Saviour:

and turn this day from following the Lord; apostatize from him, and from his worship:

to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices; which was never our intention, or ever entered into our hearts to erect one for such a purpose:

besides the altar of the Lord our God, that [is] before his tabernacle; it standing in the court of the tabernacle before the holy place.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 22:29. God forbid that we should rebel — These words not only express their strong abhorrence of this crime, but also show that without God they could do no good thing, and that they depended upon him for that strength by which alone they could abstain from evil.