And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel, all the able-bodied men, gathered themselves together at Shiloh to go up to war against them, for they took the erection of this altar as an evidence of apostasy, as a transgression of God's precept concerning the unity of the altar of burnt offering, Leviticus 17:8; Deuteronomy 12:4, and therefore prepared to carry out His command of extermination upon the apostate tribes, Deuteronomy 13.

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