Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Joshua 22:22

“The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)”

Joshua 22:22 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Joshua 22:22, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Joshua 22. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,

22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)

23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;

24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Kings 8:39Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all …
  • Psalms 44:21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
  • Deuteronomy 10:17For the LORD your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:
  • Job 10:7Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.
  • Jeremiah 17:10I the LORD search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
  • 2 Corinthians 11:31The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which is blessed for evermore, knoweth that I lie not.
  • Psalms 97:7Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods.
  • Daniel 2:47The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.
  • John 2:24But Jesus did not commit himself unto them, because he knew all men,
  • Psalms 136:2O give thanks unto the God of gods: for his mercy endureth for ever.
  • Psalms 139:1O LORD, thou hast searched me, and known me.
  • Psalms 82:1God standeth in the congregation of the mighty; he judgeth among the gods.
  • 2 Corinthians 11:11Wherefore? because I love you not? God knoweth.
  • 1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king.

More to meet God in Joshua

Joshua 1:9Joshua 24:15Joshua 1:8Joshua 22:5Joshua 7:21Joshua 6:4Joshua 5:1Joshua 22:15Joshua 5:14Joshua 9:1Joshua 24:14Joshua 3:10Joshua 2:9Joshua 14:6

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.