Joshua 7:9
The Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and coming together as one, they will surround us, and they will wipe our name from the earth. And what will you do concerning your great name?”
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In Context
8My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies?
10And the Lord said to Joshua: “Rise up. Why are you lying flat on the ground?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13And Moses said to the Lord: “But then the Egyptians, from whose midst you led out this people,
Deuteronomy 32:26I said: Where are they? I will cause their memory to cease from among men.
Psalms 83:4For even the sparrow has found a home for himself, and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young: your altars, O Lord of hosts, my king and my God.
Psalms 106:6And they cried out to the Lord in tribulation, and he rescued them in their necessity.
Psalms 124:2in Jerusalem. Mountains surround it. And the Lord surrounds his people, from this time forward and even forever.
Ezekiel 36:22For this reason, you shall say to the house of Israel: Thus says the Lord God: I will act, not for your sake, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have defiled among the Gentiles, to whom you entered.
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 →