Joshua 7:9
Hebrew Text— Joshua 7:9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?”
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I, even I, am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”
He restores my soul. He guides me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.
I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them as Yahweh our God is whenever we call on him?
but indeed for this cause I have made you stand: to show you my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth,
Today, Yahweh will deliver you into my hand. I will strike you, and take your head from off you. I will give the dead bodies of the army of the Philistines today to the birds of the sky, and to the wild animals of the earth; that all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel,
I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.”
He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.
Thus Yahweh saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
You murmured in your tents, and said, “Because Yahweh hated us, he has brought us out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us.
“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
He is your praise, and he is your God, who has done for you these great and awesome things which your eyes have seen.
If you will not observe to do all the words of this law that are written in this book, that you may fear this glorious and fearful name, YAHWEH your God,
So Hannah rose up after they had finished eating and drinking in Shiloh. Now Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of Yahweh’s temple.
For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name’s sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people for himself.
and he said: “Yahweh is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;
Asa cried to Yahweh his God, and said, “Yahweh, there is no one besides you to help, between the mighty and him who has no strength. Help us, Yahweh our God; for we rely on you, and in your name are we come against this multitude. Yahweh, you are our God. Don’t let man prevail against you.”
But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai’s people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai’s people.
For if you remain silent now, then relief and deliverance will come to the Jews from another place, but you and your father’s house will perish. Who knows if you haven’t come to the kingdom for such a time as this?”
Guide me in your truth, and teach me, For you are the God of my salvation, I wait for you all day long.
Don’t let those who are my enemies wrongfully rejoice over me; neither let those who hate me without a cause wink their eyes.
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God?” Let it be known among the nations, before our eyes, that vengeance for your servants’ blood is being poured out.
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
Therefore he said that he would destroy them, had Moses, his chosen, not stood before him in the breach, to turn away his wrath, so that he wouldn’t destroy them.
Why should the nations say, “Where is their God, now?”
In that day, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;
For my own sake, for my own sake, I will do it; for how would my name be profaned? I will not give my glory to another.
The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh’s house. The priests, Yahweh’s ministers, mourn.
Behold, a voice out of the heavens said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.”
I ask then, did God reject his people? May it never be! For I also am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.
Behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought to his brothers a Midianite woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
You shall remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you. Therefore I command you this thing today.
You are happy, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by Yahweh, the shield of your help, the sword of your excellency? Your enemies will submit themselves to you. You will tread on their high places.”
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh’s hand is mighty, and that you may fear Yahweh your God forever.’ ”
hear in heaven, your dwelling place, and do according to all that the foreigner calls to you for; that all the peoples of the earth may know your name, to fear you, as do your people Israel, and that they may know that this house which I have built is called by your name.
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.
Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.
“Now these are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power, and by your strong hand.
My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
For your name’s sake, Yahweh, pardon my iniquity, for it is great.
But as for me, I will walk in my integrity. Redeem me, and be merciful to me.
I will extol you, Yahweh, for you have raised me up, and have not made my foes to rejoice over me.
As is your name, God, so is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
Sins overwhelmed me, but you atoned for our transgressions.
But he, being merciful, forgave iniquity, and didn’t destroy them. Yes, many times he turned his anger away, and didn’t stir up all his wrath.
that they may know that you alone, whose name is Yahweh, are the Most High over all the earth.
He has sent redemption to his people. He has ordained his covenant forever. His name is holy and awesome!
He has not done this for just any nation. They don’t know his ordinances. Praise Yah!
Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter. I didn’t know that they had devised plans against me, saying, “Let’s destroy the tree with its fruit, and let’s cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.”
Do not abhor us, for your name’s sake. Do not disgrace the throne of your glory. Remember, and don’t break your covenant with us.
But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
Nevertheless I withdrew my hand, and worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, in whose sight I brought them out.
But I had respect for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations where they went.
“Therefore tell the house of Israel, ‘The Lord Yahweh says: “I don’t do this for your sake, house of Israel, but for my holy name, which you have profaned among the nations where you went.
“ ‘ “I will make my holy name known among my people Israel. I won’t allow my holy name to be profaned any more. Then the nations will know that I am Yahweh, the Holy One in Israel.
Then my enemy will see it, and shame will cover her who said to me, where is Yahweh your God? Then my enemy will see me and will cover her shame. Now she will be trodden down like the mire of the streets.
For from the rising of the sun even to its going down, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations,” says Yahweh of Armies.
While he was still speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them. Behold, a voice came out of the cloud, saying, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. Listen to him.”
For he received from God the Father honor and glory when the voice came to him from the Majestic Glory, “This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.”
Why should the Egyptians talk, saying, ‘He brought them out for evil, to kill them in the mountains, and to consume them from the surface of the earth?’ Turn from your fierce wrath, and turn away from this evil against your people.
So Yahweh turned away from the evil which he said he would do to his people.
‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring this people into the land which he swore to them, therefore he has slain them in the wilderness.’
When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
For they intended evil against you. They plotted evil against you which cannot succeed.
For I said, “Don’t let them gloat over me, or exalt themselves over me when my foot slips.”
“Come,” they say, “let’s destroy them as a nation, that the name of Israel may be remembered no more.”
Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
But deal with me, Yahweh the Lord, for your name’s sake, because your loving kindness is good, deliver me;
From the rising of the sun to its going down, Yahweh’s name is to be praised.
They will fight against you, but they will not prevail against you; for I am with you”, says Yahweh, “to rescue you.”
For the Lord will not cast off forever.
“ ‘ “Now when I passed by you, and looked at you, behold, your time was the time of love; and I spread my skirt over you, and covered your nakedness. Yes, I swore to you, and entered into a covenant with you,” says the Lord Yahweh, “and you became mine.
“But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a defective thing; for I am a great King,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and my name is awesome among the nations.”
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
Moses said to Yahweh, “Then the Egyptians will hear it; for you brought up this people in your might from among them.
lest the land you brought us out from say, ‘Because Yahweh was not able to bring them into the land which he promised to them, and because he hated them, he has brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.’
were it not that I feared the provocation of the enemy, lest their adversaries should judge wrongly, lest they should say, ‘Our hand is exalted, Yahweh has not done all this.’ ”
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.
Moreover, Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, I have purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance, that the name of the dead may not be cut off from among his brothers and from the gate of his place. You are witnesses today.”
When he came, behold, Eli was sitting on his seat by the road watching, for his heart trembled for God’s ark. When the man came into the city and told about it, all the city cried out.
What one nation in the earth is like your people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, and to make himself a name, and to do great things for you, and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you redeemed to yourself out of Egypt, from the nations and their gods?
(for they shall hear of your great name, and of your mighty hand, and of your outstretched arm); when he comes and prays toward this house;
Now therefore, Yahweh our God, save us, I beg you, out of his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that you, Yahweh, are God alone.”
lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him;” lest my adversaries rejoice when I fall.
For you are my rock and my fortress, therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.
Draw near to my soul and redeem it. Ransom me because of my enemies.
Help us, God of our salvation, for the glory of your name. Deliver us, and forgive our sins, for your name’s sake.
Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power known.
For my name’s sake, I will defer my anger, and for my praise, I hold it back for you so that I don’t cut you off.
Your offspring also would have been as the sand and the descendants of your body like its grains. His name would not be cut off nor destroyed from before me.”
Though our iniquities testify against us, work for your name’s sake, Yahweh; for our rebellions are many. We have sinned against you.
But I worked for my name’s sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations, among which they were, in whose sight I made myself known to them, in bringing them out of the land of Egypt.
When they came to the nations where they went, they profaned my holy name; in that men said of them, ‘These are Yahweh’s people, and have left his land.’
Let the priests, the ministers of Yahweh, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, “Spare your people, Yahweh, and don’t give your heritage to reproach, that the nations should rule over them. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’ ”
Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came out of the sky, saying, “I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
Not to us, Yahweh, not to us, but to your name give glory, for your loving kindness, and for your truth’s sake.