Joshua 7:9
For when the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land hear of it, they will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth; and what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?'
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
In Context
8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned their backs before their enemies!
10And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Get thee up; wherefore, now, art thou fallen upon thy face?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13And Moses said unto the LORD: 'When the Egyptians shall hear — for Thou broughtest up this people in Thy might from among them —
Deuteronomy 32:26I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;
Psalms 83:4(83-5) They 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 done iniquitously, we have dealt wickedly.
Psalms 124:2'If it had not been the LORD who was for us, when men rose up against us,
Ezekiel 36:22Therefore say unto the house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord GOD: I do not this for your sake, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations, whither ye came.
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 →