Joshua 7:9
The 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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In Context
8O Lord, what can I say, after Israel has run away from its enemies?
10“Get up,” said the Lord to Joshua, “why are you lying on your face there?
Cross References
Psalms 83:4“Come, let us wipe them out as a nation, so Israel’s name will be mentioned no more.”
Psalms 106:6We, like our fathers, have sinned, we have done perversely and wickedly
Psalms 124:2“Had it not been the Lord who was for us when enemies rose against us,
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 →