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Joshua 7:9

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?”

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ASV

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great name?

KJV

For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְיִשְׁמְע֣וּve.yish.me.'Uand they may hearH8085 →
הַֽכְּנַעֲנִ֗יha.ke.na.'a.Nithe Canaanite[s]H3669 →
וְכֹל֙ve.Kholand allH3605 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֣יyo.she.Vei[the] inhabitants ofH3427 →
הָאָ֔רֶץha.'A.retzthe landH776 →
וְנָסַ֣בּוּve.na.Sa.buand they will surroundH5437 →
עָלֵ֔ינוּ'a.Lei.nu<on> usH5921 →
וְהִכְרִ֥יתוּve.hikh.Ri.tuand they will cut offH3772 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
שְׁמֵ֖נוּshe.Me.nuname ourH8034 →
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הָאָ֑רֶץha.'A.retzthe earthH776 →
וּמַֽה־u.mah-and what?H4100 →
תַּעֲשֵׂ֖הta.'a.Sehwill you doH6213 →
לְשִׁמְךָ֥le.shim.Khafor name yourH8034 →
הַגָּדֽוֹל׃ סha.ga.Dol<the> greatH1419 →

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Exodus 32:12Why should the Egyptians declare, ‘He brought them out with evil intent, to kill them in the mountains and wipe them from the face of the earth’? Turn from Your fierce anger and relent from doing harm to Your people.1 Samuel 12:22Indeed, for the sake of His great name, the LORD will not abandon His people, because He was pleased to make you His own.Psalms 106:8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.Psalms 83:4saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”Ezekiel 36:22–23Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.Numbers 14:16‘Because the LORD was unable to bring this people into the land He swore to give them, He has slaughtered them in the wilderness.’John 12:28Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”Jeremiah 14:7Although our iniquities testify against us, O LORD, act for the sake of Your name. Indeed, our rebellions are many; we have sinned against You.Psalms 48:10Your name, O God, like Your praise, reaches to the ends of the earth; Your right hand is full of righteousness.Joel 2:17Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”Deuteronomy 9:28Otherwise, those in the land from which You brought us out will say, ‘Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land He had promised them, and because He hated them, He has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’Psalms 124:2–3if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,Numbers 14:13But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.Isaiah 48:9For the sake of My name I will delay My wrath; for the sake of My praise I will restrain it, so that you will not be cut off.2 Samuel 7:23And who is like Your people Israel—the one nation on earth whom God went out to redeem as a people for Himself and to make a name for Himself? You performed great and awesome wonders by driving out nations and their gods from before Your people, whom You redeemed for Yourself from Egypt.Psalms 79:9Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of Your name; deliver us and atone for our sins, for the sake of Your name.Deuteronomy 32:27if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”Psalms 13:4lest my enemy say, “I have overcome him,” and my foes rejoice when I fall.

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