Joshua 7:10

And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

In Context

9The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?

11Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hidden it among their goods.

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Cross References

Exodus 14:15And the Lord said to Moses: Why criest thou to me? Speak to the children of Israel to go forward.

1 Samuel 15:22And Samuel said: Doth the Lord desire holocausts and victims, and not rather that the voice of the Lord should be obeyed? For obedience is better than sacrifices: and to hearken rather than to offer the fat of rams.

1 Chronicles 22:16In gold, and in silver, and in brass, and in iron, whereof there is no number. Arise then, and be doing, and the Lord will be with thee.

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 →

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