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

What wilt thou

General references

Numbers 14:16

Bible References

Shall hear

Why let the Egyptians say, He took them out to an evil fate, to put them to death on the mountains, cutting them off from the earth? Let your wrath be turned away from them, and send not this evil on your people.

And Moses said to the Lord, Then it will come to the ears of the Egyptians; for by your power you took this people out from among them;

What wilt thou

I said I would send them wandering far away, I would make all memory of them go from the minds of men:

We are sinners like our fathers, we have done wrong, our acts are evil.

And I was acting for the honour of my name, so that it might not be made unclean before the eyes of the nations among whom they were, and before whose eyes I gave them knowledge of myself, by taking them out of the land of Egypt.

For this cause say to the children of Israel, This is what the Lord has said: I am doing this, not because of you, O children of Israel, but because of my holy name, which you have made unclean among the nations wherever you went.

Let the priests, the servants of the Lord, be weeping between the covered way and the altar, and let them say, Have mercy on your people, O Lord, do not give up your heritage to shame, so that the nations become their rulers: why let them say among the peoples, Where is their God?

Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again.

General references

Because the Lord was not able to take this people into the land which he made an oath to give them, he sent destruction on them in the waste land.