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 do the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil He brought them out to slay them among mountains, and to consume them from off the face of the ground? turn back from the heat of Thine anger, and repent of the evil against Thy people.

And Moses saith unto Jehovah, 'Then have the Egyptians heard! for Thou hast brought up with Thy power this people out of their midst,

Environ

They have said, 'Come, And we cut them off from being a nation, And the name of Israel is not remembered any more.'

Save for Jehovah -- who hath been for us, In the rising up of man against us,

What wilt thou

I have said: I blow them away, I cause their remembrance to cease from man;

We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.

And I do it for My name's sake, Not to pollute it before the eyes of the nations, In whose midst they are, Before whose eyes I became known to them, To bring them out from the land of Egypt.

Therefore, say to the house of Israel, Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Not for your sake am I working, O house of Israel, But -- for My holy name, That ye have polluted among nations whither ye have gone in.

Between the porch and the altar weep let the priests, ministrants of Jehovah, And let them say: 'Have pity, O Jehovah, on Thy people, And give not Thy inheritance to reproach, To the ruling over them of nations, Why do they say among peoples, Where is their God?'

Father, glorify Thy name.' There came, therefore, a voice out of the heaven, 'I both glorified, and again I will glorify it;'

General references

From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them -- He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.