Joshua 7:19

World English Bible (2000)

Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַ אֶל־עָכָ֗ן בְּנִי֙ שִֽׂים־נָ֣א כָב֗וֹד לַֽיהוָ֛ה אֱלֹהֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וְתֶן־ל֣וֹ תוֹדָ֑ה וְהַגֶּד־נָ֥א לִי֙ מֶ֣ה עָשִׂ֔יתָ אַל־תְּכַחֵ֖ד מִמֶּֽנִּי׃

Transliteration

And wayyomer Yehoshua to-'Akhan, "Son-my, sim-please kavod to-YHWH 'Elohei Yisrael and-ten-to-him todah, and-hagged-please to-me what 'asita; 'al-tekhaḥed from-me."

Grammar Details

• *wayyomer*: waw-consecutive imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular - said
• *sim*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - give/place
• *kavod*: noun, masculine singular - glory/honor
• *'Elohei*: noun, masculine plural construct - God of
• *ten*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular - give
• *todah*: noun, feminine singular - praise/thanksgiving/confession
• *hagged*: imperative, 2nd person masculine singular, Hiphil - tell
• *'asita*: perfect, 2nd person masculine singular - you did
• *tekhaḥed*: imperfect, 2nd person masculine singular, Piel, jussive - hide

Word Meanings

• *sim kavod*: give glory/honor/acknowledge
• *todah*: praise/thanksgiving/confession
• *tekhaḥed*: hide/conceal/cover up

Referenced Verses

• 1 Sam 6:5 : 5 Therefore you shall make images of your tumors, and images of your mice that mar the land; and you shall give glory to the God of Israel: perhaps he will lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
• John 9:24 : 24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
• Jer 13:16 : 16 Give glory to Yahweh your God, before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on the dark mountains, and, while you look for light, he turns it into the shadow of death, and makes it gross darkness.
• 1 Sam 14:43 : 43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, "Tell me what you have done!" Jonathan told him, and said, "I certainly did taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die."
• 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 Hezekiah spoke comfortably to all the Levites who had good understanding [in the service] of Yahweh. So they ate throughout the feast for the seven days, offering sacrifices of peace offerings, and making confession to Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
• Dan 9:4 : 4 I prayed to Yahweh my God, and made confession, and said, Oh, Lord, the great and dreadful God, who keeps covenant and loving kindness with those who love him and keep his commandments,
• Num 5:6-7 : 6 "Speak to the children of Israel: 'When a man or woman commits any sin that men commit, so as to trespass against Yahweh, and that soul is guilty; 7 then he shall confess his sin which he has done, and he shall make restitution for his guilt in full, and add to it the fifth part of it, and give it to him in respect of whom he has been guilty.
• Jonah 1:8-9 : 8 Then they asked him, "Tell us, please, for whose cause this evil is on us. What is your occupation? Where do you come from? What is your country? Of what people are you?" 9 He said to them, "I am a Hebrew, and I fear Yahweh, the God of heaven, who has made the sea and the dry land." 10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said to him, "What is this that you have done?" For the men knew that he was fleeing from the presence of Yahweh, because he had told them.
• Luke 17:18 : 18 Were there none found who returned to give glory to God, except this stranger?"
• 2 Chr 33:12-13 : 12 When he was in distress, he begged Yahweh his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers. 13 He prayed to him; and he was entreated by him, and heard his supplication, and brought him again to Jerusalem into his kingdom. Then Manasseh knew that Yahweh was God.
• Ezra 10:10-11 : 10 Ezra the priest stood up, and said to them, "You have trespassed, and have married foreign women, to increase the guilt of Israel. 11 Now therefore make confession to Yahweh, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women."
• Ps 32:5 : 5 I acknowledged my sin to you. I didn't hide my iniquity. I said, I will confess my transgressions to Yahweh, and you forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah.
• Ps 51:3 : 3 For I know my transgressions. My sin is constantly before me.
• Prov 28:13 : 13 He who conceals his sins doesn't prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them finds mercy.
• Isa 13:12 : 12 I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.
• Jer 3:12-13 : 12 Go, and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, 'Return, you backsliding Israel,' says Yahweh; 'I will not look in anger on you; for I am merciful,' says Yahweh. 'I will not keep [anger] forever. 13 Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against Yahweh your God, and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed my voice,' says Yahweh."
• Rom 10:10 : 10 For with the heart, one believes unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
• 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 in gentleness correcting those who oppose him: perhaps God may give them repentance leading to a full knowledge of the truth,
• Titus 2:2 : 2 that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in patience:
• Jas 1:20 : 20 for the anger of man doesn't produce the righteousness of God.
• 1 Pet 3:8-9 : 8 Finally, be all like-minded, compassionate, loving as brothers, tenderhearted, courteous, 9 not rendering evil for evil, or insult for insult; but instead blessing; knowing that to this were you called, that you may inherit a blessing.
• 1 John 1:8-9 : 8 If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. 9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us the sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 10 If we say that we haven't sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.
• Rev 16:9 : 9 People were scorched with great heat, and people blasphemed the name of God who has the power over these plagues. They didn't repent and give him glory.