9. So the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in Canaan to return to Gilead, their own land, which they had acquired in accordance with the command of the Lord through Moses.
10. When they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.
11. And when the Israelites heard that they had built the altar on the border of Canaan at Geliloth near the Jordan on the Israelite side,
12. the whole assembly of Israel gathered at Shiloh to go to war against them.
13. So the Israelites sent Phinehas son of Eleazar, the priest, to the land of Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh.
14. With him they sent ten of the chief men, one from each of the tribes of Israel, each the head of a family division among the Israelite clans.
15. When they went to Gilead—to Reuben, Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh—they said to them: