Joshua 7:9

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Joshua 7:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 “O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

8 O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?

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?”

10 But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

11 Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.

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Exodus 32:12

Why 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.

Numbers 14:13

But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.

Psalms 83:4

saying, “Come, let us erase them as a nation; may the name of Israel be remembered no more.”

Psalms 124:2

if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,

Psalms 124:3

when their anger flared against us, then they would have swallowed us alive,

Deuteronomy 32:26

I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

Deuteronomy 32:27

if 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 106:6

We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.

Psalms 106:7

Our fathers in Egypt did not grasp Your wonders or remember Your abundant kindness; but they rebelled by the sea, there at the Red Sea.

Psalms 106:8

Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.

Ezekiel 20:9

But I acted for the sake of My name, that it should not be profaned in the eyes of the nations among whom they were living, in whose sight I had revealed Myself to Israel by bringing them out of the land of Egypt.

Ezekiel 36:22

Therefore 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.

Ezekiel 36:23

I will show the holiness of My great name, which has been profaned among the nations—the name you have profaned among them. Then the nations will know that I am the LORD, declares the Lord GOD, when I show My holiness in you before their eyes.

Joel 2:17

Let 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?’”

John 12:28

Father, glorify Your name!” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”