Joshua 22:17 KJV
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
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- They build an altar of testimony, The congregation offended thereatHere is the care of the separated tribes to keep their hold of Canaan's religion. At first sight it seemed a design to set up an altar against the altar at...
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Cross References
- Numbers 25:1–18 And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. …
- Deuteronomy 4:3–4 Your eyes have seen what the LORD did because of Baalpeor: for all the men that followed Baalpeor, the LORD thy God hath destroyed them from among you. …
- Psalms 106:28–29 They joined themselves also unto Baalpeor, and ate the sacrifices of the dead. …
- Ezra 9:13–14 And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this; …
- 1 Corinthians 10:8 Neither let us commit fornication, as some of them committed, and fell in one day three and twenty thousand.
- 1 Corinthians 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
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Topics
- Government Executive officers of tribes and cities, called princes or nobles, members of the national assembly
- Haste In judgment, by Moses and the Israelites
- Israel Two and one-half tribes return from the west side of the Jordan River; erect a memorial to signify the unity of the tribes; the memorial...
- Manasseh Make satisfactory explanation
- Misjudgment Of the Reubenites and Gadites
- Motive When they built the memorial
- Phinehas Sent, with other princes of the Israelites west of the Jordan River to inquire of the Israelites on the east of the Jordan River what the...
- Plague For the sin of Peor
- Prudence The Israelites, in the threatened war with the two and one-half tribes
- Reproof Israelites, of the two and one-half tribes
- Reubenites Unite with the other tribes in building a monument to signify the unity of the tribes on the east of the Jordan River with the tribes on...
- Reverence The nine and one-half tribes of Israel west of the Jordan River
- Uncharitableness The tribes west of the Jordan River toward the two and a half tribes
- War Averted
- Zeal, religious Israelites
Timeline
- Timeline of the Bible1451–1443 BC · Joshua
Places
- PeorMountain · Location disputed
- Places in Joshua 22 on a map
Bible Dictionary
Hebrew and Strong’s
- the iniquity לָנוּ lānû Preposition · with suffix: first person common plural אֶת ʾet Object marker עֲוֺן ʿăwōn עָוֺן Noun · masculine or feminine singular construct
- of Peor פְּעוֹר pĕʿôr פְּעוֹר Proper name
- too little הַמְעַט hamʿaṭ מְעַט Adjective · masculine singular · with question
- for us, from which we are not cleansed אֲשֶׁר ʾăšer Relative לֹא lōʾ Negative הִטַּהַרְנוּ hiṭṭaharnû טָהֵר Verb · hithpael perfect, first person common plural
- until this day מִמֶּנּוּ mimmennû Preposition · with suffix: first person common plural עַד ʿad Preposition הַיּוֹם hayyôm יוֹם Noun · masculine singular · with the הַזֶּה hazzê Pronoun · with the
- although there was a plague וַיְהִי wayhî Verb · qal sequential imperfect, third person masculine singular · with and הַנֶּגֶף hannegep נֶגֶף Noun · masculine singular · with the
- in the congregation בַּעֲדַת baʿădat עֵדָה Noun · feminine singular construct · with preposition
- of the LORD יְהוָה yhwh יְהֹוָה Proper name
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