Hey Bible readers, I'm Tara Lee Cobble and I'm your host for the Bible Recap.

Today we wrapped a quarter of the

book of the Bible. Can you believe it? We're a quarter of the way through the

Bible. I've learned so much in the past 88 days and I can't wait to see what he

teaches me about himself in the next

two hundred and seventy seven days we have left. Even though this is my 10th trip

through the Bible I still learn something new every single day and I hope you do too.

Yesterday God finished divvying up the land for all the tribes in the cities of refuge.

Today now that the land has been sufficiently conquered the 2.5 trans-jordan tribes have fulfilled

their promise to fight for the land among the other tribes.

Joshua affirms them, reminds them to be loyal only to Yahweh, then he blesses them and sends them east across the Jordan River to their homes.

On the way there, the 2.5 tribes decide to build an altar on the west side of the Jordan

River, and it's huge.

When the Western tribes hear about it, they're ready to fight.

You can't just go building altars wherever you want.

Yawe said he would establish a central location for worship, and this seems to be in direct defiance of his words.

They send a delegation headed up by Phineas, the son of Eleas or the High Priest, whom you may remember as the one who stabbed the two people in Numbers 25,

it was probably fairly alarming to have him show up because he does not play around when it comes to

sin.

The Western delegation accuses the trans-jordan tribes of turning away from God,

and they're afraid God will send judgment on all of Israel because of it. They want an explanation,

and they even offer the trans-j Jordan tribes a really gracious option for

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