Joshua 24 · Verse 7

Joshua 24:7

And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Joshua 24:7, King James Version

Joshua 24:7 in other translations

BSBSo your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
WEBWhen they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
ASVAnd when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.
YLTand they cry unto Jehovah, and He setteth thick darkness between you and the Egyptians, and bringeth on them the sea, and covereth them, and your eyes see that which I have done in Egypt; and ye dwell in a wilderness many days.
DARBYThen they cried to Jehovah, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt; and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
BBEAnd at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land.
WebsterAnd when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

What does Joshua 24:7 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 24:1-14

We must never think our work for God done, till our life is done. If he lengthen out our days beyond what we expected, like those of Joshua, it is because he has some further service for us to do. He who aims at the same mind which was in Christ Jesus, will glory in bearing the last testimony to his Saviour's goodness, and in telling to all around, the obligations with which the unmerited goodness of God has bound…

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Joshua 24:7 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וַיִּצְעֲק֣וּvai.yitz.'a.Kuand they cried outH6817
אֶל\־'el-toH413
יְהוָ֗הYah.wehYahwehH3068
וַיָּ֨שֶׂםvai.Ya.semand he putH7760
מַֽאֲפֵ֜לma.'a.FeldarknessH3990
בֵּינֵיכֶ֣ם\׀bei.nei.Khembetween youH996
וּבֵ֣יןu.Veinand betweenH996
הַמִּצְרִ֗יםha.mitz.Rimthe EgyptiansH4713
וַיָּבֵ֨אvai.ya.Ve'and he broughtH935
עָלָ֤יו'a.Lavover itH5921
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַיָּם֙hai.Yamthe seaH3220
וַיְכַסֵּ֔הוּvay.kha.Se.huand it covered itH3680
וַתִּרְאֶ֙ינָה֙va.tir.'Ei.nahand they sawH7200
עֵינֵיכֶ֔ם'ei.nei.Khemeyes yourH5869
אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>H853
אֲשֶׁר\־'a.Sher-[that] whichH834
עָשִׂ֖יתִי'a.Si.tiI didH6213
בְּמִצְרָ֑יִםbe.mitz.Ra.yimin EgyptH4714
וַתֵּשְׁב֥וּva.te.she.Vuand you dweltH3427
בַמִּדְבָּ֖רva.mid.Barin the wildernessH4057
יָמִ֥יםya.MimdaysH3117
רַבִּֽים\׃ra.BimmanyH7227

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Joshua 24:7

  • Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Exodus 14:20

    And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

  • Exodus 14:10

    And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and, behold, the Egyptians marched after them; and they were sore afraid: and the children of Israel cried out unto the Lord.

  • Nehemiah 9:12-21

    Moreover thou leddest them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they should go. Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant: And gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them. …

  • Exodus 14:31

    And Israel saw that great work which the Lord did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the Lord, and believed the Lord, and his servant Moses.

  • Exodus 14:27-28

    And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the Lord overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

  • Psalms 95:9-10

    When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work. Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:

  • Joshua 5:6

    For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

  • Numbers 14:33-34

    And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and bear your whoredoms, until your carcases be wasted in the wilderness. After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

  • Deuteronomy 29:2

    And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

  • Deuteronomy 1:46

    So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

  • Acts 13:17-18

    The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

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And when.
Ex 14:10
he put.
Ex 14:20
brought.
Ex 14:27,28
your eyes.
Ex 14:31; De 4:34; 29:2
ye dwelt.
5:6; Nu 14:33,34; Ne 9:12-21; Ps 95:9,10; Ac 13:17,18; Heb 3:17

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Context

  • Joshua 24:6

    And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.

  • Joshua 24:7

    And when they cried unto the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

  • Joshua 24:8

    And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

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Joshua 24:7 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Y como ellos clamasen á Jehová, él puso oscuridad entre vosotros y los Egipcios, é hizo venir sobre ellos la mar, la cual los cubrió: y vuestros ojos vieron lo que hice en Egipto. Después estuvisteis muchos días en el desierto.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
et ils crièrent à l’ Éternel, et il mit une obscurité entre vous et les Égyptiens, et fit venir la mer sur eux, et les couvrit; et vos yeux virent ce que je fis aux Égyptiens; et vous avez habité longtemps dans le désert.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Da schrieen sie zu Jehova, und er setzte Finsternis zwischen euch und die Ägypter und führte das Meer über sie und bedeckte sie; und eure Augen haben gesehen, was ich an den Ägyptern getan habe. Und ihr wohntet in der Wüste eine lange Zeit.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Clamaverunt autem ad Dominum filii Israël: qui posuit tenebras inter vos et Ægyptios, et adduxit super eos mare, et operuit eos. Viderunt oculi vestri cuncta quæ in Ægypto fecerim, et habitastis in solitudine multo tempore: