
Text -- Joshua 7:10 (NET)




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Wesley -> Jos 7:10
Wesley: Jos 7:10 - -- This business is not to be done by inactive supplication, but by vigorous endeavours for reformation.
This business is not to be done by inactive supplication, but by vigorous endeavours for reformation.
JFB -> Jos 7:10-15
JFB: Jos 7:10-15 - -- The answer of the divine oracle was to this effect: the crisis is owing not to unfaithfulness in Me, but sin in the people. The conditions of the cove...
The answer of the divine oracle was to this effect: the crisis is owing not to unfaithfulness in Me, but sin in the people. The conditions of the covenant have been violated by the reservation of spoil from the doomed city; wickedness, emphatically called folly, has been committed in Israel (Psa 14:1), and dissimulation, with other aggravations of the crime, continues to be practised. The people are liable to destruction equally with the accursed nations of Canaan (Deu 7:26). Means must, without delay, be taken to discover and punish the perpetrator of this trespass that Israel may be released from the ban, and things be restored to their former state of prosperity.
Clarke -> Jos 7:10
Clarke: Jos 7:10 - -- Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? - It is plain there was nothing in Joshua’ s prayer or complaint that was offensive to God, for here t...
Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? - It is plain there was nothing in Joshua’ s prayer or complaint that was offensive to God, for here there is no reprehension: Why liest thou thus? this is no time for complaint; something else is indispensably necessary to be done.
Calvin -> Jos 7:10
Calvin: Jos 7:10 - -- 10.And the Lord said unto Joshua, etc God does not reprimand Joshua absolutely for lying prostrate on the ground and lamenting the overthrow of the p...
10.And the Lord said unto Joshua, etc God does not reprimand Joshua absolutely for lying prostrate on the ground and lamenting the overthrow of the people, since the true method of obtaining pardon from God was to fall down suppliantly before him; but for giving himself up to excessive sorrow. The censure, however, ought to be referred to the future rather than to the past; for he tells him to put an end to his wailing, just as if he had said, that he had already lain too long prostrate, and that all sloth must now be abandoned, as there was need of a different remedy. But he first shows the cause of the evil, and then prescribes the mode of removing it. He therefore informs him that the issue of the battle was disastrous, because he was offended with the wickedness of the people, and had cast off their defense.
We formerly explained why the punishment of a private sacrilege is transferred to all; because although they were not held guilty in their own judgment or that of others, yet the judgment of God, which involved them in the same condemnation, had hidden reasons into which, though it may perhaps be lawful to inquire soberly, it is not lawful to search with prying curiosity. At the same time we have a rare example of clemency in the fact, that while the condemnation verbally extends to all, punishment is inflicted only on a single family actually polluted by the crime. What follows tends to show how enormous the crime was, and accordingly the particle
Defender -> Jos 7:10
Defender: Jos 7:10 - -- God is not pleased or placated by prayer - no matter how piously offered - when those praying have not first faced the possibility of sin and correcte...
God is not pleased or placated by prayer - no matter how piously offered - when those praying have not first faced the possibility of sin and corrected it. Unanswered prayer may not usually be caused by sin. Yet this possibility should always be first considered, especially before complaining to God about it, as Joshua was doing."
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Barnes -> Jos 7:10
Barnes: Jos 7:10 - -- God’ s answer is given directly, and in terms of reproof. Joshua must not lie helpless before God; the cause of the calamity was to be discover...
God’ s answer is given directly, and in terms of reproof. Joshua must not lie helpless before God; the cause of the calamity was to be discovered.
Poole -> Jos 7:10
Poole: Jos 7:10 - -- This business is not to be done by unactive supplication, but by vigorous endeavours for reformation.
This business is not to be done by unactive supplication, but by vigorous endeavours for reformation.
Gill -> Jos 7:10
Gill: Jos 7:10 - -- And the Lord said unto Joshua, get thee up,.... From the ground where he lay prostrate, with his face to it: this he said, not as refusing his supplic...
And the Lord said unto Joshua, get thee up,.... From the ground where he lay prostrate, with his face to it: this he said, not as refusing his supplication to him, but rather as encouraging and strengthening him; though chiefly he said this in order to instruct him, and that he might prepare for what he was to do:
wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? in this manner, so distressed and dejected; or for this thing, as the Targum, for this defeat of the army; something else is to be done besides prayer and supplication.

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TSK Synopsis -> Jos 7:1-26
TSK Synopsis: Jos 7:1-26 - --1 The Israelites are smitten at Ai.6 Joshua's complaint.10 God instructs him what to do.16 Achan is taken by the lot.19 His confession.24 He and all h...
Maclaren -> Jos 7:1-12
Maclaren: Jos 7:1-12 - --Joshua 7:1-12
This passage naturally parts itself into,
1. The hidden sin (Joshua 5:1);
2. The repulse by which it is punished (Joshua 5:2-5);
3. Th...
MHCC -> Jos 7:10-15
MHCC: Jos 7:10-15 - --God awakens Joshua to inquiry, by telling him that when this accursed thing was put away, all would be well. Times of danger and trouble should be tim...
Matthew Henry -> Jos 7:10-15
Matthew Henry: Jos 7:10-15 - -- We have here God's answer to Joshua's address, which, we may suppose, came from the oracle over the ark, before which Joshua had prostrated himself,...
Keil-Delitzsch -> Jos 7:10-15
Keil-Delitzsch: Jos 7:10-15 - --
The answer of the Lord, which was addressed to Joshua directly and not through the high priest, breathed anger against the sin of Israel. The questi...
Constable -> Jos 5:13--13:1; Jos 7:1-26
Constable: Jos 5:13--13:1 - --C. Possession of the land 5:13-12:24
Before Israel entered the land of Canaan, God had been preparing fo...
