Joshua 7:9
When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”
Majority Standard Bible
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In Context
8O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
10But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
Psalms 106:6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
Psalms 124:2if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
Ezekiel 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which 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 →