Joshua 7:9
Only let the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land hear, and they will surround us, and cut off our name out of the earth,—what then wilt thou do for thy great name?
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
8Oh My Lord,—what shall I say, after Israel have turned their backs before their enemies?
10And Yahweh said unto Joshua—Get thee up! wherefore is it that thou art lying upon thy face?
Cross References
Numbers 14:13Then said Moses unto Yahweh,—So shall the Egyptians hear, For thou hast brought up. in thy might, this people out of their midst;
Deuteronomy 32:26I said, I would puff them away, I would destroy from mortals, their memory;
Psalms 83:4They have said—Come, and let us wipe them out from being a nation, That the name of Israel may be remembered no more.
Psalms 106:6We have sinned—with our fathers, We have acted perversely, we have committed lawlessness;
Psalms 124:2If it had not been, Yahweh, who was on our side, when men rose up against us,
Ezekiel 36:22Therefore say thou to the house of Israel Thus saith My Lord Yahweh, Not for your sakes, am I working. O house of Israel, But for my holy Name which ye have profaned, among the nations where ye have entered;
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 →