Joshua 7 · Verse 11

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.
Joshua 7:11, King James Version

Joshua 7:11 in other translations

BSBIsrael 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.
WEBIsrael has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.
ASVIsrael hath sinned; yea, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
YLTIsrael hath sinned, and also they have transgressed My covenant which I commanded them, and also taken of the devoted thing, and also stolen, and also deceived, and also put it among their vessels,
DARBYIsrael hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them, and they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it among their stuff.
BBEIsrael has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.
WebsterIsrael 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 goods.

What does Joshua 7:11 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…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 11 Israel hath sinned - It is impossible that God should turn against his people, if they had not turned away from him. They have taken of the accursed thing, notwithstanding my severe prohibition. They have also stolen, supposing, if not seen by their brethren, I should either not see or not regard it. They have dissembled - pretended to have kept strictly the command I gave them; and have put it among their own stuff - considered it now as a part of their own property.

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…

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Joshua 7:11 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.

חָטָא֙cha.Ta'it has sinnedH2398
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
וְגַם֙ve.Gamand alsoH1571
עָבְר֣וּ'a.ve.Ruthey have transgressedH5674
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בְּרִיתִ֔יbe.ri.Ticovenant myH1285
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834
צִוִּ֖יתִיtzi.Vi.tiI commandedH6680
אוֹתָ֑ם'o.Tam<obj.> themH853
וְגַ֤םve.Gamand alsoH1571
לָֽקְחוּ֙la.ke.Chuthey have takenH3947
מִן\־min-some ofH4480
הַחֵ֔רֶםha.Che.remthe devoted thing[s]H2764
וְגַ֤םve.Gamand alsoH1571
גָּֽנְבוּ֙ga.ne.Vuthey have stolenH1589
וְגַ֣םve.Gamand alsoH1571
כִּֽחֲשׁ֔וּki.cha.Shuthey have deceivedH3584
וְגַ֖םve.Gamand alsoH1571
שָׂ֥מוּSa.muthey have put [them]H7760
בִכְלֵיהֶֽם\׃vikh.lei.Hemamong things theirH3627

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Cross references for Joshua 7:11

  • Acts 5:1-2

    But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession, And kept back part of the price, his wife also being privy to it, and brought a certain part, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

  • Joshua 6:17-19

    And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent. And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

  • Hebrews 4:13

    Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

  • Acts 5:9

    Then Peter said unto her, How is it that ye have agreed together to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? behold, the feet of them which have buried thy husband are at the door, and shall carry thee out.

  • Joshua 7:20-21

    And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

  • Isaiah 24:5

    The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

  • Joshua 23:16

    When ye have transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.

  • Isaiah 50:1-2

    Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother’s divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away. Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

  • Malachi 3:8-9

    Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation.

  • 2 Kings 18:12

    Because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and would not hear them, nor do them.

  • 2 Kings 5:25-26

    But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither. And he said unto him, Went not mine heart with thee, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet thee? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

  • Jeremiah 31:32

    Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Israel.
1,20,21
transgressed.
23:16; De 17:2; Jud 2:20; 2Ki 18:12; Isa 24:5; 50:1,2; Jer 31:32
Ho 6:7
the accursed.
21; 6:17-19
stolen.
Mal 3:8,9; Mt 22:21
dissembled.
2Ki 5:25,26; Joh 12:5,6; Ac 5:1,2,9; Heb 4:13
among.
Le 5:15; Hab 2:6; Zec 5:4

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Context

  • 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.

  • Joshua 7:12

    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.

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Joshua 7:11 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Israel ha pecado, y aun han quebrantado mi pacto que yo les había mandado; pues aun han tomado del anatema, y hasta han hurtado, y también han mentido, y aun lo han guardado entre sus enseres.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Israël a péché, et même ils ont transgressé mon alliance que je leur avais commandée, et même ils ont pris de l’anathème, et même ils ont volé, et même ils ont menti, et ils l’ont aussi mis dans leur bagage.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Israel hat gesündigt, und auch haben sie meinen Bund übertreten, den ich ihnen geboten habe; und auch haben sie von dem Verbannten genommen und auch gestohlen und es auch verheimlicht und es auch unter ihre Geräte gelegt!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Peccavit Israël, et prævaricatus est pactum meum: tuleruntque de anathemate, et furati sunt atque mentiti, et absconderunt inter vasa sua.