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Joshua 7:19

in Joshua 7

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV

ASV

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

KJV

And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

This verse in Joshua 7

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Give glory to the Lord - A form of solemn adjuration by which the person addressed was called upon before God to declare the truth. The phrase assumes that the glory of God is always promoted by manifestation of the truth (compare the marginal references).

This site's exposition

and make confession unto him

on Joshua 7:19-20

Joshua calls him my son, and give glory to the God of Israel is a formula of solemn adjuration, a demand for the truth under oath; the same words are put to the healed man in John 9:24 by men who want an admission out of him. Barnes reads it as summoning a man before God to speak plainly. Achan answers without argument, indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and the older commentators divide over what the confession was worth to him, Clarke holding out hope for the man while others read an admission the lot had already forced.

The words behind it

22 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.

  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶרand he said

    vaiyomerH5595305 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֜עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091218 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H4135510 times

  • עָכָ֗ןAchan

    ʾakhanH59126 times

  • בְּנִי֙O son my

    beniH11214930 times

  • שִֽׂים־put

    sim-H7760584 times

  • נָ֣אplease

    na'H4994404 times

  • כָב֗וֹדglory

    khavodH3519

  • לַֽיהוָ֛הto Yahweh

    layahwehH30686520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵ֥י[the] God of

    ʾeloheiH4302601 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֖לIsrael

    yisraelH34782507 times

  • וְתֶן־and give

    veten-H54142011 times

  • ל֣וֹto <the> him

    lo

  • תוֹדָ֑הconfession

    todahH8426

  • וְהַגֶּד־and tell

    vehaged-H5046370 times

  • נָ֥אplease

    na'H4994404 times

  • לִי֙to <the> me

    li

  • מֶ֣הwhat?

    mehH4100752 times

  • עָשִׂ֔יתָhave you done

    ʾasitaH62132628 times

  • אַל־may not

    ʾal-H408724 times

  • תְּכַחֵ֖דyou hide [it]

    tekhachedH3582

  • מִמֶּֽנִּי׃from me

    mimeniH44801188 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

    Jeremiah 13:16

    Give glory to the LORD your God before He brings darkness, before your feet stumble on the dusky mountains. You wait for light, but He turns it into deep gloom and thick darkness.

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 8:22

      Then they will look to the earth and see only distress and darkness and the gloom of anguish. And they will be driven into utter darkness.

    • Isaiah 59:9

      Therefore justice is far from us, and righteousness does not reach us. We hope for light, but there is darkness; for brightness, but we walk in gloom.

    • Isaiah 60:2

      For behold, darkness covers the earth, and thick darkness is over the peoples; but the LORD will rise upon you, and His glory will appear over you.

    • Proverbs 4:19

      But the way of the wicked is like the darkest gloom; they do not know what makes them stumble.

    • Isaiah 5:30

      In that day they will roar over it, like the roaring of the sea. If one looks over the land, he will see darkness and distress; even the light will be obscured by clouds.

  • Through

    1 Samuel 6:5

    Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and…

    it leads to

    • 1 Samuel 5:6–7

      Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.

    • 1 Samuel 5:11

      Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us…

  • Through

    John 9:24

    So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

    it leads to

    • John 9:16

      Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there…

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; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament.