Joshua 7:9
For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the people of the land, they will come up, shutting us in and cutting off our name from the earth: and what will you do for the honour of your great name?
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In Context
8O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?
10Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;
Deuteronomy 32:26I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:
Psalms 83:4\83:3\They have made wise designs against your people, talking together against those whom you keep in a secret place.
Psalms 106:6We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.
Psalms 124:2If it had not been the Lord who was on our side, when men came up against us;
Ezekiel 36:22For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you 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 →