Joshua 7:8

O Lord, what can I say, after Israel has run away from its enemies?

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In The King James Version

O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

In Context

7“Ah, Lord God,” said Joshua, “why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan, only to hand us over to the Amorites to be killed? Would that we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan.

9The Canaanites and all who live in the land will hear of it and surround us and wipe us off the earth. Then what will you do for your great honor?”

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Cross References

Psalms 89:43You have turned back his sword from the foe, you did not lift him up in the battle.

Romans 3:5But what if our wrongdoing makes God’s righteousness all the clearer? Will God be wrong in inflicting punishment? (I can but speak as a person.) Heaven forbid!

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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