Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
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In Context
8Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?
10The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13Moses said to the LORD, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
Deuteronomy 32:26I said that I would scatter them afar. I would make their memory to cease from among men;
Psalms 83:4“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Psalms 106:6We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. We have done wickedly.
Psalms 124:2if it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
Ezekiel 36:22“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord GOD says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where 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 →