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Joshua 7:9

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?

KJV

Audient Chananæi, et omnes habitatores terræ, et pariter conglobati circumdabunt nos, atque delebunt nomen nostrum de terra : et quid facies magno nomini tuo ?

Vulgate

καὶ ἀκούσας ὁ Χαναναῖος καὶ πάντες οἱ κατοικοῦντες τὴν γῆν περικυκλώσουσιν ἡμᾶς καὶ ἐκτρίψουσιν ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς γῆς· καὶ τί ποιήσεις τὸ ὄνομά σου τὸ μέγα;

LXX

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?

ASV

וְ/יִשְׁמְע֣וּ הַֽ/כְּנַעֲנִ֗י וְ/כֹל֙ יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָ/אָ֔רֶץ וְ/נָסַ֣בּוּ עָלֵ֔י/נוּ וְ/הִכְרִ֥יתוּ אֶת שְׁמֵ֖/נוּ מִן הָ/אָ֑רֶץ וּ/מַֽה תַּעֲשֵׂ֖ה לְ/שִׁמְ/ךָ֥ הַ/גָּדֽוֹל

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֶ֣רֶץ
'rts
noun · 2484×
אֶת
't
pronoun · 10895×
גָּד֖וֹל
gdvl
verb · 528×
הִכְרַתִּ֥י
hkrty
verb · 283×
וֹ
v
noun · 848×
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י
yshby
verb · 1088×
יַּ֥עַשׂ
y'sh
verb · 2621×
כְּנַעֲנִי֙
kn'ny
noun · 72×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מִן
mn
preposition · 1223×
מַה
mh
particle · 745×
נִי
ny
verb · 158×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
שִׁמְעוּ
shm'v
verb · 1157×

Historic Christian voices

1 passage from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Cross-references

  • 1Sam 12:22 — For the LORD will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake: because it hath pleased the LORD to make you his people.
  • 2Sam 7:23 — And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy lan
  • Deut 9:28 — Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the LORD was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in t
  • Deut 32:27 — Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, lest their adversaries should behave themselves strangely, and lest they should say, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all this.
  • Exod 32:12 — Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent
  • Exod 32:12 — Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent
  • Ezek 36:22 — Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; I do not this for your sakes, O house of Israel, but for mine holy name’s sake, which ye have profaned among the heathen, whither ye we
  • Isa 48:9 — For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.
  • Jer 14:7 — O LORD, though our iniquities testify against us, do thou it for thy name’s sake: for our backslidings are many; we have sinned against thee.
  • Joel 2:17 — Let the priests, the ministers of the LORD, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O LORD, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over
  • John 12:28 — Father, glorify thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.
  • Num 14:13 — And Moses said unto the LORD, Then the Egyptians shall hear it, (for thou broughtest up this people in thy might from among them;)
  • Num 14:16 — Because the LORD was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.
  • Ps 13:4 — Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
  • Ps 48:10 — According to thy name, O God, so is thy praise unto the ends of the earth: thy right hand is full of righteousness.
  • Ps 79:9 — Help us, O God of our salvation, for the glory of thy name: and deliver us, and purge away our sins, for thy name’s sake.
  • Ps 83:4 — They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation; that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance.
  • Ps 106:8 — Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
  • Ps 115:1 — Not unto us, O LORD, not unto us, but unto thy name give glory, for thy mercy, and for thy truth’s sake.
  • Ps 124:2 — If it had not been the LORD who was on our side, when men rose up against us: