Joshua 7:9
For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
King James Version
In Context
8O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!
10And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would scatter them into corners, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men:
Psalms 83:4They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
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 36:22Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye 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 →