Joshua 22:1-14

11Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, 2and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you. 3You have not abandoned your brothers these many days to this day, but have fulfilled the obligation of the commandment of the Lord your God. 4And now 3the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them; therefore turn now and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan. 5Only be very careful to 4follow the commandment and the Law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to 5love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways, and keep His commandments and cling to Him, and serve Him 6with all your heart and with all your soul.” 6So Joshua 7blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents.

7Now 8to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but 9to the other half Joshua gave a possession among their brothers westward beyond the Jordan. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he also blessed them, 8and said to 10them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very many livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; 11divide the spoils of your enemies with your brothers.” 9So the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home, 12leaving the sons of Israel at Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the 13land of Gilead, to the land of their possession in which they had settled, in accordance with the 14command of the Lord 15through Moses.

10When they came to the region of the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, 16a large altar in appearance. 11But the sons of Israel 17heard a report: “Behold, the sons of Reuben, the sons of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh have 18built an altar at the 19frontier of the land of Canaan, in the region of the Jordan, on the side belonging to the sons of Israel.” 12And when the sons of Israel heard about it, the entire congregation of the sons of Israel assembled at 20Shiloh to go up against them in battle.

13Then the sons of Israel sent to the sons of Reuben, to the sons of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, in the land of Gilead, 21Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, 14and with him ten leaders, one leader for each father’s household from each of the tribes of Israel; and 22each one of them was the head of his father’s household among the 23thousands of Israel.