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Joshua 24:7

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So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.

KJV

And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

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This verse in Joshua 24

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

The same waters were the Israelites' guard and the Egyptians' grave, and this in answer to prayer; for, though we find in the story that they in that distress murmured against God ( Exod. xiv. 11, 12 ), notice is here taken of their crying to God; he graciously accepted those that prayed to him, and overlooked the folly of those that quarrelled with him.

This site's exposition

Then I sent Moses and Aaron

on Joshua 24:5-7

The darkness of verse 7 is the cloud of Exodus 14:20, which came between the two camps. Though those who watched died in the wilderness, Joshua tells this crowd, "Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians", as Deuteronomy 5:3 speaks of Horeb's covenant to a later generation. Thirty-eight years then close in one line, "you lived in the wilderness for a long time".

This site's exposition

your fathers cried out to the LORD

Exodus 14:10 records the cry, and the next two verses record the complaint to Moses that serving the Egyptians would have been better. Joshua's recital keeps only the cry.

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The words behind it

23 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיִּצְעֲק֣וּand they cried out

    vaiyitzakuH6817 →

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוָ֗הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • וַיָּ֨שֶׂםand he put

    vaiyasemH7760 →584 times

  • מַֽאֲפֵ֜לdarkness

    maafelH3990 →

  • בֵּינֵיכֶ֣ם׀between you

    beineikhemH996 →407 times

  • וּבֵ֣יןand between

    uveinH996 →407 times

  • הַמִּצְרִ֗יםthe Egyptians

    hamitzrimH4713 →

  • וַיָּבֵ֨אand he brought

    vaiyave'H935 →2568 times

  • עָלָ֤יוover it

    ʾalavH5921 →5755 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיָּם֙the sea

    haiyamH3220 →396 times

  • וַיְכַסֵּ֔הוּand it covered it

    vaykhasehuH3680 →

  • וַתִּרְאֶ֙ינָה֙and they saw

    vatireinahH7200 →1300 times

  • עֵינֵיכֶ֔םeyes your

    ʾeineikhemH5869 →887 times

  • אֵ֥ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • אֲשֶׁר־[that] which

    ʾasher-H834 →5497 times

  • עָשִׂ֖יתִיI did

    ʾasitiH6213 →2628 times

  • בְּמִצְרָ֑יִםin Egypt

    bemitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • וַתֵּשְׁב֥וּand you dwelt

    vateshevuH3427 →1079 times

  • בַמִּדְבָּ֖רin the wilderness

    vamidbarH4057 →270 times

  • יָמִ֥יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • רַבִּֽים׃many

    rabimH7227 →454 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

17 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Exodus 14:10As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.7 worksDeuteronomy 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?5 worksExodus 14:20so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.4 worksExodus 14:27–28So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.3 worksPsalms 95:9–10where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.3 worksExodus 14:31When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.3 works
The other 11 cross-references, with their words ▾
Nehemiah 9:12–21You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.3 worksJob 19:8He has blocked my way so I cannot pass; He has veiled my paths with darkness.3 worksDeuteronomy 1:46For this reason you stayed in Kadesh for a long time—a very long time.2 worksNumbers 14:33–34Your children will be shepherds in the wilderness for forty years, and they will suffer for your unfaithfulness until the last of your bodies lies in the wilderness.2 worksJoshua 5:6For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.2 worksDeuteronomy 29:2Moses summoned all Israel and proclaimed to them, “You have seen with your own eyes everything the LORD did in Egypt to Pharaoh, to all his officials, and to all his land.2 worksExodus 10:23No one could see anyone else, and for three days no one left his place. Yet all the Israelites had light in their dwellings.2 worksHebrews 3:9where your fathers tested and tried Me, and for forty years saw My works.2 worksMalachi 1:5You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”2 worksHebrews 3:17And with whom was God angry for forty years? Was it not with those who sinned, whose bodies fell in the wilderness?1 worksActs 13:17–18The God of the people of Israel chose our fathers. He made them into a great people during their stay in Egypt, and with an uplifted arm He led them out of that land.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the…

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 26:8

      Then the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great terror, signs, and wonders.

    • Deuteronomy 5:15

      Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and that the LORD your God brought you out of there with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. That is why the…

    • Exodus 6:6

      Therefore tell the Israelites: ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the yoke of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched…

    • Deuteronomy 7:19

      the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same…

    • Deuteronomy 7:8–9

      But because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your fathers, He brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand…

  • Through

    Exodus 14:10

    As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 107:6

      Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He delivered them from their distress.

    • Nehemiah 9:9

      You saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt; You heard their cry at the Red Sea.

    • Psalms 34:17

      The righteous cry out, and the LORD hears; He delivers them from all their troubles.

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About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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