Joshua 7:9

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?”

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְיִשְׁמְע֣וּ הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗י וְכֹל֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאָ֔רֶץ וְנָסַ֣בּוּ עָלֵ֔ינוּ וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּ אֶת־שְׁמֵ֖נוּ מִן־הָאָ֑רֶץ וּמַֽה־תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה לְשִׁמְךָ֥ הַגָּדֽוֹל׃

Transliteration

And weyishme'u the-Kena'ani and-all yoshvei the-land, and wenasabbu upon-us, and wehikhritu 'eth-name-our from-the-land. And-what-ta'aseh for-name-your the-great?

Grammar Details

• *weyishme'u*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural - will hear
• *Kena'ani*: proper noun, gentilic with definite article - the Canaanite
• *yoshvei*: participle, masculine plural construct, Qal - inhabitants of
• *wenasabbu*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, Niphal - will surround
• *wehikhritu*: waw-consecutive perfect, 3rd person masculine plural, Hiphil - will cut off
• *ta'aseh*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular - will you do

Word Meanings

• *wenasabbu*: will surround/encircle/gather against
• *wehikhritu*: will cut off/exterminate/destroy

Referenced Verses

• Exod 32:12 : 12 Why should the Egyptians say,‘For evil he led them out to kill them in the mountains and to destroy them from the face of the earth’? Turn from your burning anger, and relent of this evil against your people.
• Ps 83:4 : 4 They say,“Come on, let’s annihilate them so they are no longer a nation! Then the name of Israel will be remembered no more.”
• Ps 106:6-8 : 6 We have sinned like our ancestors; we have done wrong, we have done evil. 7 Our ancestors in Egypt failed to appreciate your miraculous deeds, they failed to remember your many acts of loyal love, and they rebelled at the sea, by the Red Sea. 8 Yet he delivered them for the sake of his reputation, that he might reveal his power.
• Ps 124:2-3 : 2 if the LORD had not been on our side, when men attacked us, 3 they would have swallowed us alive, when their anger raged against us.
• Ezek 20:9 : 9 I acted for the sake of my reputation, so that I would not be profaned before the nations among whom they lived, before whom I revealed myself by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 36:22-23 : 22 “Therefore say to the house of Israel,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: It is not for your sake that I am about to act, O house of Israel, but for the sake of my holy reputation which you profaned among the nations where you went. 23 I will magnify my great name that has been profaned among the nations, that you have profaned among them. The nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Sovereign LORD, when I magnify myself among you in their sight.
• Joel 2:17 : 17 Let the priests, those who serve the LORD, weep from the vestibule all the way back to the altar. Let them say,“Have pity, O LORD, on your people; please do not turn over your inheritance to be mocked, to become a proverb among the nations. Why should it be said among the peoples,“Where is their God?”
• John 12:28 : 28 Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven,“I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
• Num 14:13 : 13 Moses said to the LORD,“When the Egyptians hear it– for you brought up this people by your power from among them–
• Deut 9:28 : 28 Otherwise the people of the land from which you brought us will say,“The LORD was unable to bring them to the land he promised them, and because of his hatred for them he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.”
• Deut 32:26-27 : 26 The Weakness of Other Gods“I said,‘I want to cut them in pieces. I want to make people forget they ever existed. 27 But I fear the reaction of their enemies, for their adversaries would misunderstand and say,“Our power is great, and the LORD has not done all this!”’