Joshua 7:8 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁸O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

Joshua 7:8 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Romans 3:5-6
But if our unrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say? Is God unrighteous who taketh vengeance?(I speak as a man) …
Habakkuk 2:1
I will stand upon my watch, and set me upon the tower, and will watch to see what he will say unto me, and what I shall answer when I am reproved.
Ezra 9:10
And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Ark Blessing Enquiring of God Importunity Intercession Jesus, the Christ Mediation

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-9)

We have here an account of the deep concern Joshua was in upon this sad occasion. He, as a public person, interested himself more than any other in this public loss, and is therein an example to princes and great men, and teaches them to lay much to heart the calamities that befal their people: he is also a type of Christ, to whom the blood of his subjects is precious, Ps. 72:14. Observe, I. How h…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 8)

6-9. Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth ... before the ark ... he and the elders--It is evident, from those tokens of humiliation and sorrow, that a solemn fast was observed on this occasion. The language of Joshua’s prayer is thought by many to savor of human infirmity and to be wanting in that reverence and submission he owed to God. But, although apparently breathing a spirit of bol…