约书亚记 22:28

Chinese Union (Simplified)

所 以 我 们 说 ： 日 後 你 们 对 我 们 ， 或 对 我 们 的 後 人 这 样 说 ， 我 们 就 可 以 回 答 说 ， 你 们 看 我 们 列 祖 所 筑 的 坛 是 耶 和 华 坛 的 样 式 ； 这 并 不 是 为 献 燔 祭 ， 也 不 是 为 献 别 的 祭 ， 乃 是 为 作 你 我 中 间 的 证 据 。

Parallel Translations

Chinese NCV (Simplified)
因此我們說：‘將來有人對我們，或是對我們的後代這樣說，我們就可以回答：你們看我們列祖所築的壇，是耶和華的祭壇的模式，這並不是用來獻燔祭，也不是用來獻別的祭，而是在我們和你們中間作證據。’

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Behold: Exodus 25:40, 2 Kings 16:10, Ezekiel 43:10, Ezekiel 43:11, Hebrews 8:5

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:30 - a witness Joshua 24:27 - General Isaiah 19:20 - for a

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Therefore said we,.... To prevent any such usage of our children, and that they might have a ready answer to give:

that it shall be, when they should [so] say unto us, or to our generations, in time to come; as above suggested, that they were a separate people from them, and had no interest in the Lord, nor right to his altar, nor concern in his worship:

that we may say [again]; in reply, that is, our posterity:

behold the pattern of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made; which exactly agrees with the Mosaic altar, and which they could never have framed in so exact a manner if they had not seen it, and served at it; wherefore this was a plain proof of their being originally worshippers of the same God, partakers of the same altar, and were in the faith, fellowship, and communion of Israel. According to Gussetius n, this was not the altar the Reubenites, c. built, which the children of Israel would be bid to behold, but the Mosaic altar at the tabernacle or temple, which was the archetype and exemplar, according to which that of the Reubenites was formed and therefore say not, come and behold, but behold the altar present before them, that of Moses, and acknowledge that to be a type and exemplar, which they had related, and so confess it to be a testimony of their mutual fellowship: and what they had made in imitation of it, which exactly answered to it, was

not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; of any sort, that was not the intention of erecting it:

but it [is] a witness between us and you; that we worship the same God, and are of the same faith and fellowship.

n Ebr. Comment. p. 135.