Joshua 7:9

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“When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?””

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Read Joshua 7:9 in the flow of Joshua7 for its full sense, then follow the cross-references below to the passages that echo it. Open Joshua7 to see the surrounding context.

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BSBPD

“When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?””

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“and the Canaanite and all the inhabitants of the land do hear, and have come round against us, and cut off our name out of the earth; and what dost Thou do for Thy great name?'”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Joshua 7:9 — 15 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.
  2. Numbers 14:13But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
  3. Deuteronomy 9:28Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
  4. Deuteronomy 32:26I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,
  5. Psalms 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.
  6. Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”
  7. Psalms 83:5For with one mind they plot together, they form an alliance against You—
  8. Psalms 106:6We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
  9. Psalms 115:1Not to us, O LORD, not to us, but to Your name be the glory, because of Your loving devotion, because of Your faithfulness.
  10. Psalms 124:2if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
  11. Ezekiel 20:9But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
  12. Ezekiel 36:22Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
  13. Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
  14. Micah 7:10Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.
  15. John 12:28Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”

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