Quotes About Community

Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh

So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.

With him they sent ten chiefs—one family leader from each tribe of Israel, each the head of a family among the clans of Israel.

Was not Achan son of Zerah unfaithful regarding what was set apart for destruction, bringing wrath upon the whole congregation of Israel? Yet it was not only Achan who perished because of his sin!í”

That is why we said, ëLet us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.

Rather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.í Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ëYou have no share in the LORD!í

When Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the congregation—the heads of Israelís clans who were with him—heard what the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh had to say, they were satisfied.

Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”

So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar Witness, for they said, “It is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”

he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,

So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.í

The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

Now the descendants of Mosesí father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.

The house of Joseph also attacked Bethel, and the LORD was with them.

So they called that place Bochim and offered sacrifices there to the LORD.

And the people served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him, who had seen all the great works that the LORD had done for Israel.

And they took the daughters of these people in marriage, gave their own daughters to their sons, and served their gods.

And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.

“When the princes take the lead in Israel, when the people volunteer, bless the LORD.

My heart is with the princes of Israel, with the volunteers among the people. Bless the LORD!

You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder

The princes of Issachar were with Deborah, and Issachar was with Barak, rushing into the valley at his heels. In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.