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] he brought them out to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth'? Turn from {your fierce anger} and relent concerning the disaster for your people.

And Moses said to Yahweh, "Then the Egyptians will hear that you brought up this people from their midst in your power,

Environ

They say, "Come, let us annihilate them from [being] a nation, so that the name of Israel will be remembered no more."

"If [it had] not [been] Yahweh who was on our side, when men rose up against us,

What wilt thou

I thought, "I will wipe them out; {I will make people forget they ever existed}."

We have sinned [along] with our ancestors. We have committed iniquity; we have incurred guilt.

"But I acted for the sake of my name {to keep it from being profaned} before the eyes of the nations {among whom they lived}, where I made known to them before their eyes, to bring them out from the land of Egypt.

"Therefore thus say to the house of Israel, 'Thus says the Lord Yahweh: "{Not for your sake} [am] I about to act, house of Israel, {but} {for my holy name}, which you defiled among the nations {to which you went}.

Between the colonnade and the altar, let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep. And let them say, "Take pity, Yahweh, on your people. Do not make your inheritance a reproach, a byword among [the] nations. Why should they say among the nations, 'Where [is] their God?'"

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

General references

'Yahweh was unable to bring this people in the land that he swore by an oath, and he slaughtered them in the desert.'