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Joshua 7:13

in Joshua 7

Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from among you.

KJV

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

This verse in Joshua 7

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Up, sanctify the people - Joshua, all the time that God spake, lay prostrate before the ark: he is now commanded to get up, and sanctify the people, i.e., cause them to wash themselves, and get into a proper disposition to hear the judgment of the Lord relative to the late transactions.

This site's exposition

Sanctify yourselves against to morrow

on Joshua 7:13-15

The remedy is a public assembly, and the people are told to sanctify themselves before the search starts, the same preparation ordered at Sinai in Exodus 19:10 and at the Jordan in Joshua 3:5. The narrowing runs by tribes, then families, then households, then man by man, and each step says the Lord taketh rather than naming a method; Clarke reports the older Jewish explanations, including the stone of the high priest's breastplate losing its light. He hath wrought folly in Israel uses a phrase Scripture keeps for a short list of acts, Genesis 34:7 over Dinah, Deuteronomy 22:21, and again in Judges 19 and 20.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

On the verses either side of this one

Households. In one family grouping there can be many individual households.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 7:14:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

25 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.

  • קֻ֚םarise

    kumH6965628 times

  • קַדֵּ֣שׁconsecrate

    kadeshH6942171 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H85310935 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH59711873 times

  • וְאָמַרְתָּ֖and you will say

    veamartaH5595305 times

  • הִתְקַדְּשׁ֣וּconsecrate yourselves

    hitkadeshuH6942171 times

  • לְמָחָ֑רfor tomorrow

    lemacharH427952 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH35884482 times

  • כֹה֩thus

    khohH3541577 times

  • אָמַ֨רhe says

    ʾamarH5595305 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֣י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH4302601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • חֵ֤רֶםdevoted thing[s]

    cheremH276438 times

  • בְּקִרְבְּךָ֙[are] in midst your

    bekirbechaH7130227 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לO Israel

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • לֹ֣אnot

    lo'H38085168 times

  • תוּכַ֗לyou will be able

    tukhalH3201194 times

  • לָקוּם֙to stand

    lakumH6965628 times

  • לִפְנֵ֣י<to> before

    lifneiH64402123 times

  • אֹיְבֶ֔יךָenemies your

    ʾoyeveikhaH341282 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H57041261 times

  • הֲסִירְכֶ֥םremove you

    hasirkhemH5493299 times

  • הַחֵ֖רֶםthe devoted thing[s]

    hacheremH276438 times

  • מִֽקִּרְבְּכֶֽם׃from midst your

    mikirbekhemH7130227 times

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

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

    Matthew 7:5

    You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.

    it leads to

    • Luke 6:42

      How can you say, ‘Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,’ while you yourself fail to see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First take the beam out of…

    • Psalms 51:9–13

      Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.

    • Matthew 23:13–28

      Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

  • Through

    Joshua 3:5

    Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

    it leads to

    • Leviticus 20:7

      Consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

    • 1 Samuel 16:5

      “In peace,” he replied. “I have come to sacrifice to the LORD. Consecrate yourselves and come with me to the sacrifice.” Then he consecrated Jesse and his sons and invited them to the sacrifice.

    • Joel 2:16

      Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the aged, gather the children, even those nursing at the breast. Let the bridegroom leave his room, and the bride her chamber.

    • John 17:19

      For them I sanctify Myself, so that they too may be sanctified by the truth.

  • Through

    Joshua 6:18

    But keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and…

    it leads to

    • 1 John 5:21

      Little children, keep yourselves from idols.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Achan Is Stoned to Death — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Achan Is Stoned to Death — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.