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Joshua 7:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies? "

Joshua 7:8

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6 Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads.

7 Joshua said, “Alas, Lord GOD, why have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? I wish that we had been content and lived beyond the Jordan!

8 Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after Israel has turned their backs before their enemies?

9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”

10 The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?

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Joshua 7:1

"But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel."

Joshua 7:2

"Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai."

Joshua 7:3

"They returned to Joshua, and said to him, “Don’t let all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai. Don’t make all the people to toil there, for there are only a few of them.”"

Joshua 7:4

"So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai."

Joshua 7:5

"The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck them at the descent. The hearts of the people melted, and became like water."

Joshua 7:6

"Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the LORD’s ark until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads."

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