Joshua 7:9
The Canaanites and everyone living in the land will come and surround us and wipe us out so completely that even our name will be forgotten. Then what will happen to your great reputation?”
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8Excuse me, Lord, but what can I say now that Israel has turned tail and run away from its enemies?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13But Moses told the Lord, “The Egyptians will find out about it! It was by your power that you led the Israelites out from among them.
Deuteronomy 32:26I would have told them I was going to cut them to pieces and wipe out even the memory of them;
Psalms 83:4They say, “Come on! Let's destroy them as a nation so the name ‘Israel’ will be completely forgotten.”
Psalms 106:6We have sinned just like our forefathers. We have done wrong. We are guilty.
Psalms 124:2If the Lord hadn't been for us, what would have happened when people came and attacked us?
Ezekiel 36:22Tell the people of Israel that this is what the Lord God says: I'm not doing this for you, people of Israel, but for my reputation for holiness, which you ruined among the nations where 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 →