Josva 22:31

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Og Pinehas, presten Eleasars sønn, sa til Rubens barn og Gads barn og Manasses barn: Idag skjønner vi at Herren er midt iblandt oss, siden I ikke har gjort denne troløshet mot Herren; dermed har I frelst Israels barn av Herrens hånd.

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the Lord is: Joshua 3:10, Leviticus 26:11, Leviticus 26:12, Numbers 14:41-43, 2 Chronicles 15:2, Psalms 68:17, Isaiah 12:6, Zechariah 8:23, Matthew 1:23, 1 Corinthians 14:25

now: Heb. then

Reciprocal: Exodus 6:25 - Phinehas Exodus 17:7 - Is the Lord Numbers 25:7 - Phinehas Ezra 7:5 - Phinehas

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,.... As the mouth of the deputation, and in their name:

said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh; the representatives of them assembled together on this occasion:

this day we perceive that the Lord [is] among us; his Shechinah, as the Targum; his powerful Presence in preserving their brethren from committing a trespass, as they feared; his gracious Presence smiling upon them; and as the God of peace and order, and not of confusion, uniting and cementing their hearts in love to one another:

because ye have not committed this trespass against the Lord; which they were fearful and jealous of they had, but they found that the Lord had been good and gracious in preserving them from it:

now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord; into which they would have fallen, had that been the case, and would have felt the effects of the divine resentment, but now they were secure from them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 22:31. We perceive that the Lord is among us — Or, according to the Targum of Jonathan. "This day we know that the majesty of Jehovah dwelleth among us, because ye have not committed this prevarication against the WORD of the Lord, and thus ye have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of the WORD of the Lord." They rejoice to find them innocent, and that there is no ground of quarrel between the children of the same family. And from this they draw a very favourable conclusion, that as God was among them as the sole object of their religious worship, so he would abide with them as their protector and their portion; and as they were his friends, they take it for granted that he will deliver them from the hands of their enemies.