Joshua 7:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

The children

Habakkuk 1:13

They were

Joshua 6:18

Deuteronomy 7:26

Haggai 2:13

Neither

Jeremiah 6:8

Jeremiah 23:33

Hosea 9:12

General references

Bible References

The children

and now, you would turn away from the Lord? If you rebel against the Lord today, tomorrow He will be angry with the entire community of Israel.

Then the Amalekites and Canaanites who lived in that part of the hill country came down, attacked them, and routed them as far as Hormah.

When the Angel of the Lord had spoken these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.

For You are not a God who delights in wickedness;
evil cannot dwell with You.

The wicked flee when no one is pursuing them,
but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

But your iniquities have built barriers
between you and your God,
and your sins have made Him hide His face from you
so that He does not listen.

Your eyes are too pure to look on evil,
and You cannot tolerate wrongdoing.
So why do You tolerate those who are treacherous?
Why are You silent
while one who is wicked swallows up
one who is more righteous than himself?

They were

But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster on it.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house, or you will be set apart for destruction like it. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.

Then Haggai asked, “If someone defiled by contact with a corpse touches any of these, does it become defiled?”

The priests answered, “It becomes defiled.”

Neither

Be warned, Jerusalem,
or I will turn away from you;
I will make you a desolation,
a land without inhabitants.

“Now when these people or a prophet or a priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the Lord?’ you will respond to them: What is the burden? I will throw you away”—this is the Lord’s declaration.

Even if they raise children,
I will bereave them of each one.
Yes, woe to them when I depart from them!

General references

Don’t go, because the Lord is not among you and you will be defeated by your enemies.

“When you are encamped against your enemies, be careful to avoid anything offensive.

But Phinehas stood up and intervened,
and the plague was stopped.

You are suffering under a curse, yet you—the whole nation—are still robbing Me.