Joshua 22:29

Civil War Is Averted

²⁸ Therefore we said, ‘It shall also come about if they say this to us or to our generations in time to come, then we shall say, “See the copy of the altar of the Lord which our fathers made, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; rather it is a witness between us and you.”’ ²⁹ Far be it from us that we should rebel against the Lord and turn away from following the Lord this day, by building an altar for burnt offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice, besides the altar of the Lord our God which is before His tabernacle.” ³⁰ So when Phinehas the priest and the leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, heard the words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.

Altar of the Lord

Burnt Offering

Burnt Offerings

Certainly Not

Following the Lord

God Forbid

Grain Offering

Rebel Against the Lord

To the Lord

Jehovah

Shiloh

Deuteronomy 12:13-14

“Be careful that you do not offer your burnt offerings in every cultic place you see,

Joshua 24:16

The people answered and said, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods;

Genesis 44:7

They said to him, “Why does my lord speak such words as these? Far be it from your servants to do such a thing.

Genesis 44:17

But he said, “Far be it from me to do this. The man in whose possession the cup has been found, he shall be my slave; but as for you, go up in peace to your father.”

Joshua 22:23

If we have built us an altar to turn away from following the Lord, or if to offer a burnt offering or grain offering on it, or if to offer sacrifices of peace offerings on it, may the Lord Himself require it.

Joshua 22:26

“Therefore we said, ‘Let us build an altar, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice;

1 Samuel 12:23

Moreover, as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against the Lord by ceasing to pray for you; but I will instruct you in the good and right way.

1 Kings 21:3

But Naboth said to Ahab, “The Lord forbid me that I should give you the inheritance of my fathers.”

2 Kings 18:22

But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the Lord our God,’ is it not He whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?

2 Chronicles 32:12

Has not the same Hezekiah taken away His high places and His altars, and said to Judah and Jerusalem, “You shall worship before one altar, and on it you shall burn incense”?

Romans 3:6

May it never be! For otherwise, how will God judge the world?

Romans 6:2

May it never be! How shall we who died to sin still live in it?

Romans 9:14

What shall we say then? There is no injustice with God, is there? May it never be!