Joshua 7:8

World English Bible (2000)

Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!

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Referenced Verses

  • Ezra 9:10 : 10 "Now, our God, what shall we say after this? For we have forsaken your commandments,
  • Hab 2:1 : 1 I will stand at my watch, and set myself on the ramparts, and will look out to see what he will say to me, and what I will answer concerning my complaint.
  • Rom 3:5-6 : 5 But if our unrighteousness commends the righteousness of God, what will we say? Is God unrighteous who inflicts wrath? I speak like men do. 6 May it never be! For then how will God judge the world?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 7:9-12
    4 verses
    83%

    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 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you fallen on your face like that?

    11 Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

    12 Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

  • Josh 7:6-7
    2 verses
    82%

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

    7 Joshua said, "Alas, Lord Yahweh, 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!

  • Josh 8:15
    74%

    15 Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

  • Josh 10:25
    73%

    25 Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed. Be strong and courageous, for Yahweh will do this to all your enemies against whom you fight."

  • Josh 10:8
    73%

    8 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't fear them, for I have delivered them into your hands. Not a man of them will stand before you."

  • Judg 1:1
    72%

    1 It happened after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel asked of Yahweh, saying, "Who should go up for us first against the Canaanites, to fight against them?"

  • Josh 5:1
    72%

    1 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

  • Josh 5:13
    72%

    13 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

  • Josh 9:24
    72%

    24 They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Deut 20:3
    71%

    3 and shall tell them, "Hear, Israel, you draw near this day to battle against your enemies: don't let your heart faint; don't be afraid, nor tremble, neither be scared of them;

  • Josh 11:6-8
    3 verses
    71%

    6 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time, I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire."

    7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.

    8 Yahweh delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward. They struck them until they left them none remaining.

  • Josh 8:1
    71%

    1 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed. Take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.

  • Exod 23:27
    71%

    27 I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

  • Jer 46:5
    71%

    5 Why have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and have fled apace, and don't look back: terror is on every side, says Yahweh.

  • Deut 1:42
    71%

    42 Yahweh said to me, "Tell them, 'Don't go up, neither fight; for I am not among you; lest you be struck before your enemies.'"

  • Josh 8:20
    70%

    20 When the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that way. The people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.

  • Josh 2:24
    70%

    24 They said to Joshua, "Truly Yahweh has delivered into our hands all the land. Moreover, all the inhabitants of the land melt away before us."

  • Josh 2:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 and she said to the men, "I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.

    10 For we have heard how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed.

  • Josh 1:16
    70%

    16 They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

  • Josh 8:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5 I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them.

    6 They will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, 'They flee before us, like the first time.' So we will flee before them,

  • Josh 1:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Haven't I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go."

    10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

    10 Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

  • Josh 23:3
    70%

    3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

  • Num 14:3
    70%

    3 Why does Yahweh bring us to this land, to fall by the sword? Our wives and our little ones will be a prey: wouldn't it be better for us to return into Egypt?"

  • 2 Chr 20:12
    70%

    12 Our God, will you not judge them? For we have no might against this great company that comes against us; neither know we what to do, but our eyes are on you."

  • Josh 4:15
    70%

    15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 6:7
    69%

    7 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."