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Revised Standard Version
Joshua 22:6
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their homes.
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Christian Standard Bible®
Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.
Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.
Hebrew Names Version
So Yehoshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
So Yehoshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
King James Version
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
And Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
English Standard Version
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
New Century Version
Then Joshua said good-bye to them, and they left and went away to their homes.
Then Joshua said good-bye to them, and they left and went away to their homes.
New English Translation
Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.
Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes.
Amplified Bible
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Ioshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went vnto their tents.
So Ioshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went vnto their tents.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Then Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Contemporary English Version
You've become rich from what you've taken from your enemies. You have big herds of cattle, lots of silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and plenty of clothes. Take everything home with you and share with the people of your tribe. I pray that God will be kind to you. You are now free to go home. The tribes of Reuben and Gad started back to Gilead, their own land. Moses had given the land of Bashan to the East Manasseh tribe, so they started back along with Reuben and Gad. God had told Moses that these two and a half tribes should conquer Gilead and Bashan, and they had done so. Joshua had given land west of the Jordan River to the other half of the Manasseh tribe, so they stayed at Shiloh in the land of Canaan with the rest of the Israelites.
You've become rich from what you've taken from your enemies. You have big herds of cattle, lots of silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and plenty of clothes. Take everything home with you and share with the people of your tribe. I pray that God will be kind to you. You are now free to go home. The tribes of Reuben and Gad started back to Gilead, their own land. Moses had given the land of Bashan to the East Manasseh tribe, so they started back along with Reuben and Gad. God had told Moses that these two and a half tribes should conquer Gilead and Bashan, and they had done so. Joshua had given land west of the Jordan River to the other half of the Manasseh tribe, so they stayed at Shiloh in the land of Canaan with the rest of the Israelites.
Complete Jewish Bible
Then Y'hoshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Then Y'hoshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Darby Translation
And Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
And Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua said goodbye to them, and they left and went home.
Then Joshua said goodbye to them, and they left and went home.
George Lamsa Translation
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to their towns.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to their towns.
Good News Translation
Joshua sent them home with his blessing and with these words: "You are going back home very rich, with a lot of livestock, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and many clothes. Share with your fellow tribesmen what you took from your enemies." Then they left for home. Moses had given land east of the Jordan to one half of the tribe of Manasseh, but to the other half Joshua had given land west of the Jordan, along with the other tribes.
Joshua sent them home with his blessing and with these words: "You are going back home very rich, with a lot of livestock, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and many clothes. Share with your fellow tribesmen what you took from your enemies." Then they left for home. Moses had given land east of the Jordan to one half of the tribe of Manasseh, but to the other half Joshua had given land west of the Jordan, along with the other tribes.
Literal Translation
And Joshua blessed them and sent them away. And they went to their tents.
And Joshua blessed them and sent them away. And they went to their tents.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua blessed them, and let them go. And they wente vnto their tentes.
So Iosua blessed them, and let them go. And they wente vnto their tentes.
American Standard Version
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.
Bible in Basic English
Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.
Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Iosuah blessed them, & sent them away: And they went vnto their tentes.
And so Iosuah blessed them, & sent them away: And they went vnto their tentes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto their tents.
King James Version (1611)
So Ioshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went vnto their tents.
So Ioshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went vnto their tents.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua blessed them, and dismissed them; and they went to their homes.
And Joshua blessed them, and dismissed them; and they went to their homes.
English Revised Version
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue blesside hem, and lefte hem, whiche turneden ayen in to her tabernaclis.
And Josue blesside hem, and lefte hem, whiche turneden ayen in to her tabernaclis.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua blesseth them, and sendeth them away, and they go unto their tents.
And Joshua blesseth them, and sendeth them away, and they go unto their tents.
Update Bible Version
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
World English Bible
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.
New King James Version
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
New Living Translation
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went home.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went home.
New Life Bible
Joshua prayed that good would come to them, and sent them away. Then they went to their homes.
Joshua prayed that good would come to them, and sent them away. Then they went to their homes.
New Revised Standard
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua blessed them, - and sent them away, and they took their journey unto their homes.
So Joshua blessed them, - and sent them away, and they took their journey unto their homes.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to their dwellings.
And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to their dwellings.
THE MESSAGE
Then Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way. They went home. (To the half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned a share in Bashan. To the other half, Joshua assigned land with their brothers west of the Jordan.) When Joshua sent them off to their homes, he blessed them. He said: "Go home. You're going home rich—great herds of cattle, silver and gold, bronze and iron, huge piles of clothing. Share the wealth with your friends and families—all this plunder from your enemies!" The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the People of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to Gilead, the land of their possession, which they had taken under the command of Moses as ordered by God . They arrived at Geliloth on the Jordan (touching on Canaanite land). There the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar on the banks of the Jordan—a huge altar! The People of Israel heard of it: "What's this? The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar facing the land of Canaan at Geliloth on the Jordan, across from the People of Israel!" When the People of Israel heard this, the entire congregation mustered at Shiloh to go to war against them. They sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh (that is, to the land of Gilead). Accompanying him were ten chiefs, one chief for each of the ten tribes, each the head of his ancestral family. They represented the military divisions of Israel. They went to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh and spoke to them: "The entire congregation of God wants to know: What is this violation against the God of Israel that you have committed, turning your back on God and building your own altar—a blatant act of rebellion against God ? Wasn't the crime of Peor enough for us? Why, to this day we aren't rid of it, still living with the fallout of the plague on the congregation of God ! Look at you—turning your back on God ! If you rebel against God today, tomorrow he'll vent his anger on all of us, the entire congregation of Israel. "If you think the land of your possession isn't holy enough but somehow contaminated, come back over to God 's possession, where God 's Dwelling is set up, and take your land there, but don't rebel against God . And don't rebel against us by building your own altar apart from the Altar of our God . When Achan son of Zerah violated the holy curse, didn't anger fall on the whole congregation of Israel? He wasn't the only one to die for his sin." The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the tribes of Israel: The God of Gods is God , The God of Gods is God ! "He knows and he'll let Israel know if this is a rebellious betrayal of God . And if it is, don't bother saving us. If we built ourselves an altar in rebellion against God , if we did it to present on it Whole-Burnt-Offerings or Grain-Offerings or to enact there sacrificial Peace-Offerings, let God decide. "But that's not it. We did it because we cared. We were anxious lest someday your children should say to our children, ‘You're not connected with God , the God of Israel! God made the Jordan a boundary between us and you. You Reubenites and Gadites have no part in God .' And then your children might cause our children to quit worshiping God . "So we said to ourselves, ‘Let's do something. Let's build an altar—but not for Whole-Burnt-Offerings, not for sacrifices.' "We built this altar as a witness between us and you and our children coming after us, a witness to the Altar where we worship God in his Sacred Dwelling with our Whole-Burnt-Offerings and our sacrifices and our Peace-Offerings. "This way, your children won't be able to say to our children in the future, ‘You have no part in God .' "We said to ourselves, ‘If anyone speaks disparagingly to us or to our children in the future, we'll say: Look at this model of God 's Altar which our ancestors made. It's not for Whole-Burnt-Offerings, not for sacrifices. It's a witness connecting us with you.' "Rebelling against or turning our backs on God is the last thing on our minds right now. We never dreamed of building an altar for Whole-Burnt-Offerings or Grain-Offerings to rival the Altar of our God in front of his Sacred Dwelling." Phinehas the priest, all the heads of the congregation, and the heads of the military divisions of Israel who were also with him heard what the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had to say. They were satisfied. Priest Phinehas son of Eleazar said to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, "Now we're convinced that God is present with us since you haven't been disloyal to God in this matter. You saved the People of Israel from God 's discipline." Then Priest Phinehas son of Eleazar left the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh (from Gilead) and, with the chiefs, returned to the land of Canaan to the People of Israel and gave a full report. They were pleased with the report. The People of Israel blessed God—there was no more talk of attacking and destroying the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites were living. Reuben and Gad named the altar: A Witness Between Us. God Alone Is God.
Then Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way. They went home. (To the half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned a share in Bashan. To the other half, Joshua assigned land with their brothers west of the Jordan.) When Joshua sent them off to their homes, he blessed them. He said: "Go home. You're going home rich—great herds of cattle, silver and gold, bronze and iron, huge piles of clothing. Share the wealth with your friends and families—all this plunder from your enemies!" The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the People of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to Gilead, the land of their possession, which they had taken under the command of Moses as ordered by God . They arrived at Geliloth on the Jordan (touching on Canaanite land). There the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar on the banks of the Jordan—a huge altar! The People of Israel heard of it: "What's this? The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an altar facing the land of Canaan at Geliloth on the Jordan, across from the People of Israel!" When the People of Israel heard this, the entire congregation mustered at Shiloh to go to war against them. They sent Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh (that is, to the land of Gilead). Accompanying him were ten chiefs, one chief for each of the ten tribes, each the head of his ancestral family. They represented the military divisions of Israel. They went to the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh and spoke to them: "The entire congregation of God wants to know: What is this violation against the God of Israel that you have committed, turning your back on God and building your own altar—a blatant act of rebellion against God ? Wasn't the crime of Peor enough for us? Why, to this day we aren't rid of it, still living with the fallout of the plague on the congregation of God ! Look at you—turning your back on God ! If you rebel against God today, tomorrow he'll vent his anger on all of us, the entire congregation of Israel. "If you think the land of your possession isn't holy enough but somehow contaminated, come back over to God 's possession, where God 's Dwelling is set up, and take your land there, but don't rebel against God . And don't rebel against us by building your own altar apart from the Altar of our God . When Achan son of Zerah violated the holy curse, didn't anger fall on the whole congregation of Israel? He wasn't the only one to die for his sin." The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh replied to the heads of the tribes of Israel: The God of Gods is God , The God of Gods is God ! "He knows and he'll let Israel know if this is a rebellious betrayal of God . And if it is, don't bother saving us. If we built ourselves an altar in rebellion against God , if we did it to present on it Whole-Burnt-Offerings or Grain-Offerings or to enact there sacrificial Peace-Offerings, let God decide. "But that's not it. We did it because we cared. We were anxious lest someday your children should say to our children, ‘You're not connected with God , the God of Israel! God made the Jordan a boundary between us and you. You Reubenites and Gadites have no part in God .' And then your children might cause our children to quit worshiping God . "So we said to ourselves, ‘Let's do something. Let's build an altar—but not for Whole-Burnt-Offerings, not for sacrifices.' "We built this altar as a witness between us and you and our children coming after us, a witness to the Altar where we worship God in his Sacred Dwelling with our Whole-Burnt-Offerings and our sacrifices and our Peace-Offerings. "This way, your children won't be able to say to our children in the future, ‘You have no part in God .' "We said to ourselves, ‘If anyone speaks disparagingly to us or to our children in the future, we'll say: Look at this model of God 's Altar which our ancestors made. It's not for Whole-Burnt-Offerings, not for sacrifices. It's a witness connecting us with you.' "Rebelling against or turning our backs on God is the last thing on our minds right now. We never dreamed of building an altar for Whole-Burnt-Offerings or Grain-Offerings to rival the Altar of our God in front of his Sacred Dwelling." Phinehas the priest, all the heads of the congregation, and the heads of the military divisions of Israel who were also with him heard what the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had to say. They were satisfied. Priest Phinehas son of Eleazar said to Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, "Now we're convinced that God is present with us since you haven't been disloyal to God in this matter. You saved the People of Israel from God 's discipline." Then Priest Phinehas son of Eleazar left the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh (from Gilead) and, with the chiefs, returned to the land of Canaan to the People of Israel and gave a full report. They were pleased with the report. The People of Israel blessed God—there was no more talk of attacking and destroying the land in which the Reubenites and Gadites were living. Reuben and Gad named the altar: A Witness Between Us. God Alone Is God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.
Contextual Overview
1 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manas'seh, 2 and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I have commanded you; 3 you have not forsaken your brethren these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God. 4 And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brethren, as he promised them; therefore turn and go to your home in the land where your possession lies, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of the Jordan. 5 Take good care to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul." 6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their homes. 7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manas'seh Moses had given a possession in Bashan; but to the other half Joshua had given a possession beside their brethren in the land west of the Jordan. And when Joshua sent them away to their homes and blessed them, 8 he said to them, "Go back to your homes with much wealth, and with very many cattle, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren." 9 So the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manas'seh returned home, parting from the people of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, their own land of which they had possessed themselves by command of the LORD through Moses.
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Joshua 22:7, Joshua 22:8, Joshua 14:13, Genesis 14:19, Genesis 47:7, Genesis 47:10, Exodus 39:43, 1 Samuel 2:20, 2 Samuel 6:18, 2 Samuel 6:20, 2 Chronicles 30:18, Luke 2:34, Luke 24:50, Hebrews 7:6, Hebrews 7:7
Reciprocal: Genesis 27:4 - that my Judges 2:6 - Joshua 1 Kings 8:14 - blessed all 1 Chronicles 16:2 - he blessed 2 Chronicles 6:3 - blessed
Cross-References
Isaiah 53:6
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Matthew 8:17
This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases."
This was to fulfil what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah, "He took our infirmities and bore our diseases."
John 19:17
So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol'gotha.
So they took Jesus, and he went out, bearing his own cross, to the place called the place of a skull, which is called in Hebrew Gol'gotha.
1 Peter 2:24
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. By his wounds you have been healed.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away,.... Dismissed them from his presence with a blessing, in order to go to their own country; this he did by wishing them well, praying to God for a blessing on them, their persons, and families, who had been so useful in assisting their brethren to get possession of the land of Canaan. Some think this blessing includes gifts and presents he bestowed on them:
and they went unto their tents; here the word means their military tents in the camp of Israel, to which they returned, in order to take with them their goods, their substance and riches, their part of the spoil of the enemy, which of right belonged to them.
