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 say, 'With evil intent did he bring them out, to kill them in the mountains and to consume them from the face of the earth'? Turn from your burning anger and relent from this disaster against your people.

But Moses said to the LORD, "Then the Egyptians will hear of it, for you brought up this people in your might from among them,

Environ

They say, "Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!"

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

What wilt thou

I would have said, "I will cut them to pieces; I will wipe them from human memory,"

Both we and our fathers have sinned; we have committed iniquity; we have done wickedness.

But I acted for the sake of my name, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they lived, in whose sight I made myself known to them in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

"Therefore say to the house of Israel, Thus says the Lord GOD: It is not for your sake, O house of Israel, that I am about to act, but for the sake of my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations to which you came.

Between the vestibule and the altar let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep and say, "Spare your people, O LORD, and make not your heritage a reproach, a byword among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, 'Where is their God?'"

Father, glorify your name." Then a voice came from heaven: "I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again."

General references

'It is because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land that he swore to give to them that he has killed them in the wilderness.'