Joshua 7:5

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Summary

And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.

For they

Deuteronomy 1:44

Wherefore

Isaiah 13:7

General references

Joshua 22:20

Psalm 58:7

Bible References

For they

And the Amorites who were in the hill-country came out against you and put you to flight, rushing after you like bees, and overcame you in Seir, driving you even as far as Hormah.

Wherefore

And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us;

Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

And as for the rest of you, I will make their hearts feeble in the land of their haters, and the sound of a leaf moved by the wind will send them in flight, and they will go in flight as from the sword, falling down when no one comes after them;

I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

General references

Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death.

Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.