Joshua 7:9
And the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land hear, and have come around against us, and cut off our name from the earth; and what do You do for Your great Name?”
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In Context
8Oh, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel has turned the neck before its enemies?
10And YHWH says to Joshua, “Rise, for you—why this—[that] you [are] falling on your face?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13And Moses says to YHWH, “Then the Egyptians have heard! For with Your power You have brought up this people out of their midst,
Deuteronomy 32:26I have said: I blow them away, || I cause their remembrance to cease from man;
Psalms 83:4They have said, “Come, and we cut them off from [being] a nation, || And the name of Israel is not remembered anymore.”
Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers, || We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
Psalms 124:2If YHWH had not been for us, || In the rising up of man against us,
Ezekiel 36:22Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said Lord YHWH: I am not working for your sake, || O house of Israel, but for My holy Name || That you have defiled || Among the nations to where you have gone in.
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 →