Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will encompass us around, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will thou do for thy great name?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
8Oh, LORD, what shall I say after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
10And LORD said to Joshua, Get thee up. Why are thou thus fallen upon thy face?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13And Moses said to LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them,
Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,
Psalms 83:4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. we have done wickedly.
Psalms 124:2if it had not been LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us,
Ezekiel 36:22Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says lord LORD: I do not do [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations where ye went.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 7:7-10
6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God , wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan! 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites and all the… Read the whole commentary →