Joshua 7:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

Shall hear

Exodus 32:12

Numbers 14:13

Environ

Psalm 83:4

Psalm 124:2

What wilt thou

General references

Numbers 14:16

Bible References

Shall hear

Why should the Egyptians speak, saying, He brought them forth for evil, to kill them on the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and relent of this evil against thy people.

And Moses said to LORD, Then the Egyptians will hear it, for thou brought up this people in thy might from among them,

Environ

They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation, that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.

if it had not been LORD who was on our side when men rose up against us,

What wilt thou

I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the remembrance of them to cease from among men,

We have sinned with our fathers. We have committed iniquity. we have done wickedly.

But I worked for my name's sake (that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them) in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says lord LORD: I do not do [this] for your sake, O house of Israel, but for my holy name, which ye have profaned among the nations where ye went.

Let the priests, the ministers of LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and do not give thy heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among t

Father, glorify thy name. A voice therefore came out of heaven, saying, I both glorified it, and I will glorify again.

General references

Because LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.