Joshua 7 · Verse 10

Joshua 7:10

And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
Joshua 7:10, King James Version

Joshua 7:10 in other translations

BSBBut the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
WEBThe LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
ASVAnd Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?
YLTAnd Jehovah saith unto Joshua, ‘Rise for thee, why is this? --thou art falling on thy face?
DARBYAnd Jehovah said to Joshua, Rise up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
BBEThen the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?
WebsterAnd the LORD said to Joshua, Arise; Why liest thou thus upon thy face?

What does Joshua 7:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 7:10-15
10-15. 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 destruction equally with the accursed nations of Canaan (De 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.

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 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 there is no reprehension: Why liest thou thus? this is no time for complaint; something else is indispensably necessary to be done.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 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 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, until the accursed thing be destroyed out of our hearts, and put out of our habitations and our families, and forsaken in our lives. When the sin of sinners finds them out, God is to be acknowledged. With a certain and unerring judgment, the righteous God does and will distinguish between the innocent and the guilty; so that though the righteous are of the same tribe, and family, and household with the wicked, yet they never shall be treated as the wicked.

Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain

Joshua 7:10 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.

וַיֹּ֧אמֶרvai.Yo.merand he saidH559
יְהוָ֛הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֶל\־'el-toH413
יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַye.ho.Shu.a'JoshuaH3091
קֻ֣םkumstand upH6965
לָ֑ךְLakhfor <the> yourself
לָ֣מָּהLa.mah<to> why?H4100
זֶּ֔הZehthisH2088
אַתָּ֖ה'a.Tah[are] youH859
נֹפֵ֥לno.FelfallingH5307
עַל\־'al-onH5921
פָּנֶֽיךָ\׃pa.Nei.khaface yourH6440

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

Cross references for Joshua 7:10

  • 1 Samuel 16:1

    And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

  • Exodus 14:15

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward:

  • 1 Samuel 15:22

    And Samuel said, Hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams.

  • 1 Chronicles 22:16

    Of the gold, the silver, and the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise therefore, and be doing, and the Lord be with thee.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
wherefore.
Ex 14:15; 1Sa 15:22; 16:1; 1Ch 22:16
liest. Heb. fallest.
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Context

  • Joshua 7:9

    For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

  • Joshua 7:10

    And the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

  • Joshua 7:11

    Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

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Joshua 7:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y Jehová dijo á Josué: Levántate; ¿por qué te postras así sobre tu rostro?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Et l’ Éternel dit à Josué: Lève-toi; pourquoi te jettes-tu ainsi sur ta face?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da sprach Jehova zu Josua: Stehe auf! warum liegst du denn auf deinem Angesicht?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Dixitque Dominus ad Josue: Surge: cur jaces pronus in terra?