Joshua 7:12

Joshua 7:12 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
• New International Version (NIV)That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they have become doomed to destruction. Neither will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.

Context of Joshua 7:12

10So the Lord said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face? 11Israel has sinned, and they have also violated My covenant which I commanded them. And they have even taken some of the things designated for destruction, and have both stolen and kept it a secret. Furthermore, they have also put them among their own things. Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become designated for destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you eliminate from your midst the things designated for destruction. 13Stand up! Consecrate the people and say, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has said this: “There are things designated for destruction in your midst, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you have removed the designated things from your midst.” 14So in the morning you shall come forward by your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which the Lord selects by lot shall come forward by families, and the family which the Lord selects shall come forward by households, and the household which the Lord selects shall come forward man by man.

Joshua 7:12 word by word

וְלֹ֨א יֻכְל֜וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל לָקוּם֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אֹיְבֵיהֶ֔ם עֹ֗רֶף יִפְנוּ֙ לִפְנֵ֣י אֹֽיְבֵיהֶ֔ם כִּ֥י הָי֖וּ לְחֵ֑רֶם לֹ֤א אוֹסִיף֙ לִֽהְי֣וֹת עִמָּכֶ֔ם אִם־לֹ֥א תַשְׁמִ֛ידוּ הַחֵ֖רֶם מִֽקִּרְבְּכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear

• sonsבֵּןbên · son: descendant/peopleH1121
• of Israelיִשְׂרָאֵלyiώrâ'êl · IsraelH3478
• cannotיָכֹלyâkôl yâkôl · be ableH3201
• cannotלֹאlô' lô' lôh · notH3808
• standקוּםqûm · to arise: establishH6965
• againstפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
• their enemiesאָיַב'âyab · be hostileH340
• they turnפָּנָהpânâh · to turnH6437
• backsעֹ֫רֶף‛ôreph · neckH6203
• becauseכִּיkîy · forH3588
• they have becomeהָיָהhâyâh · to beH1961
• designatedחֵ֫רֶםchêrem cherem · devoted thingH2764
• I will not be with you anymoreיָסַףyâsaph · to add: againH3254
• unlessאִם'im · if: untilH518
• you eliminateשָׁמַדshâmad · to destroyH8045
• from your midstקֶ֫רֶבqereb · entrails: amongH7130

Cross-references for Joshua 7:12

• Joshua 22:18that you must turn away this day from following the Lord? If you rebel against the Lord today, He will be angry with the entire congregation of Israel tomorrow.
• Numbers 14:45Then the Amalekites and the Canaanites who lived in that hill country came down, and struck them and scattered them as far as Hormah.
• Judges 2:4Now when the angel of the Lord spoke these words to all the sons of Israel, the people raised their voices and wept.
• Psalms 5:4For You are not a God who takes pleasure in wickedness; No evil can dwell with You.
• Proverbs 28:1The wicked flee when no one is pursuing, But the righteous are bold as a lion.
• Isaiah 59:2But your wrongdoings have caused a separation between you and your God, And your sins have hidden His face from you so that He does not hear.
• Habakkuk 1:13Your eyes are too pure to look at evil, And You cannot look at harm favorably. Why do You look favorably At those who deal treacherously? Why are You silent when the wicked swallow up Those more righteous than they?
• Joshua 6:18But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things designated for destruction, so that you do not covet them and take some of the designated things, and turn the camp of Israel into something designated for destruction and bring disaster on it.
• Deuteronomy 7:26And you shall not bring an abomination into your house and become designated for destruction, like it; you are to utterly detest it, and you are to utterly loathe it, for it is something designated for destruction.
• Haggai 2:13Then Haggai said, “If one who is unclean from a corpse touches any of these things, will the latter become unclean?” And the priests answered, “It will become unclean.”
• Jeremiah 6:8Be warned, Jerusalem, Or I shall be alienated from you, And make you a desolation, An uninhabited land.”
• Jeremiah 23:33“Now when this people or the prophet or a priest asks you, saying, ‘What is the pronouncement of the Lord?’ then you shall say to them, ‘What pronouncement?’ The Lord declares, ‘I will abandon you.’
• Hosea 9:12Though they bring up their children, Yet I will bereave them of their children until not a person is left. Yes, woe to them indeed when I depart from them!

Commentaries on Joshua 7:12

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Because they were accursed - From this verse it appears that the nature of the execration or anathema was such, that those who took of the thing doomed to destruction fell immediately under the same condemnation. The inhabitants of Jericho and all that they had were accursed: therefore they and all their substance were to be destroyed. The Israelites took of the accursed thing, and therefore became accursed with it. This was certainly understood when the…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Accursed - Compare Joshua 6:17-18.Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 10-15Verses 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 times of reformation. We should look at home, into our own hearts, into our own houses, and make diligent search to find out if there be not some accursed thing there, which God sees and abhors; some secret lust, some unlawful gain, some undue withholding from God or from others. We cannot prosper…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12they themselves have been set apart for destruction: Through his individual sin, Achan made the entire nation of Israel liable to destruction.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 10-1510-15. the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up--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…Read the comment

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In the dictionaries

• Israel
• Children of Israel
• Folly
• Hide
• Tell
• Wedge
• Accursed
• Achan
• Ai
• Covetousness

Commentaries on Joshua 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings