Joshua 7 · Verse 13

Joshua 7:13

Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
Joshua 7:13, King James Version

Joshua 7:13 in other translations

BSBGet up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
WEBGet up! Sanctify the people, and say, ‘Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow, for the LORD, the God of Israel, says, “There is a devoted thing among you, Israel. You cannot stand before your enemies until you take away the devoted thing from among you.”
ASVUp, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from among you.
YLT‘Rise, sanctify the people, and thou hast said, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow; for thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, A devoted thing is in thy midst, O Israel, thou art not able to stand before thine enemies till your turning aside of the devoted thing out of your midst;
DARBYRise up, hallow the people, and say, Hallow yourselves for to-morrow; for thus saith Jehovah the God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, Israel: thou shalt not be able to stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from your midst.
BBEUp! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves holy before tomorrow, for the Lord, the God of Israel, has said, There is a cursed thing among you, O Israel, and you will give way before your attackers in the fight till the cursed thing has been taken away from among you.
WebsterRise, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thy enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

What does Joshua 7:13 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 13 Up, sanctify the people - Joshua, all the time that God spake, lay prostrate before the ark: he is now commanded to get up, and sanctify the people, i.e., cause them to wash themselves, and get into a proper disposition to hear the judgment of the Lord relative to the late transactions.

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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 7:13 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.

קֻ֚םkumariseH6965
קַדֵּ֣שׁka.DeshconsecrateH6942
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הָעָ֔םha.'Amthe peopleH5971
וְאָמַרְתָּ֖ve.'a.mar.Taand you will sayH559
הִתְקַדְּשׁ֣וּhit.ka.de.Shuconsecrate yourselvesH6942
לְמָחָ֑רle.ma.Charfor tomorrowH4279
כִּ֣יkiforH3588
כֹה֩khohthusH3541
אָמַ֨ר'a.Marhe saysH559
יְהוָ֜הYah.wehYahwehH3068
אֱלֹהֵ֣י'e.lo.Hei[the] God ofH430
יִשְׂרָאֵ֗לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
חֵ֤רֶםChe.remdevoted thing[s]H2764
בְּקִרְבְּךָ֙be.kir.be.Cha[are] in midst yourH7130
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElO IsraelH3478
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808
תוּכַ֗לtu.Khalyou will be ableH3201
לָקוּם֙la.Kumto standH6965
לִפְנֵ֣יlif.Nei<to> beforeH6440
אֹיְבֶ֔יךָ'o.ye.Vei.khaenemies yourH341
עַד\־'ad-untilH5704
הֲסִירְכֶ֥םha.sir.Khemremove youH5493
הַחֵ֖רֶםha.Che.remthe devoted thing[s]H2764
מִֽקִּרְבְּכֶֽם\׃Mi.kir.be.Khemfrom midst yourH7130

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

Cross references for Joshua 7:13

  • Lamentations 3:40-41

    Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord. Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

  • Joshua 3:5

    And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.

  • Matthew 7:5

    Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

  • 1 Corinthians 5:11-13

    But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

  • Joshua 6:18

    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.

  • 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.

  • 2 Chronicles 28:10

    And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not with you, even with you, sins against the Lord your God?

  • 1 Corinthians 5:1-6

    It is reported commonly that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not so much as named among the Gentiles, that one should have his father’s wife. And ye are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he that hath done this deed might be taken away from among you. For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed, In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, …

  • Exodus 19:10-15

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes, And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai. And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death: There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount. …

  • Zephaniah 2:1-2

    Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired; Before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you, before the day of the Lord’s anger come upon you.

  • Joel 2:16-17

    Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep between the porch and the altar, and let them say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine heritage to reproach, that the heathen should rule over them: wherefore should they say among the people, Where is their God?

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
sanctify.
3:5; Ex 19:10-15; La 3:40,41; Joe 2:16,17; Zep 2:1,2
an accursed.
11; 2Ch 28:10; Mt 7:5
take away.
1Co 5:1-6,11-13

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Context

  • 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.

  • Joshua 7:13

    Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.

  • Joshua 7:14

    In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the Lord taketh shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the Lord shall take shall come by households; and the household which the Lord shall take shall come man by man.

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Joshua 7:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Levántate, santifica al pueblo, y di: Santificaos para mañana; porque Jehová el Dios de Israel dice así: Anatema hay en medio de ti, Israel; no podrás estar delante de tus enemigos, hasta tanto que hayáis quitado el anatema de en medio de vosotros.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Lève-toi, sanctifie le peuple, et dis: Sanctifiez-vous pour demain; car ainsi a dit l’ Éternel, le Dieu d’Israël: Il y a de l’anathème au milieu de toi, Israël; tu ne pourras pas subsister devant tes ennemis, jusqu’à ce que vous ayez ôté l’anathème du milieu de vous.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Stehe auf, heilige das Volk und sprich: Heiliget euch auf morgen; denn so spricht Jehova, der Gott Israels: Ein Bann ist in deiner Mitte, Israel; du wirst vor deinen Feinden nicht zu bestehen vermögen, bis ihr den Bann aus eurer Mitte hinwegtut.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Surge, sanctifica populum, et dic eis: Sanctificamini in crastinum: hæc enim dicit Dominus Deus Israël: Anathema in medio tui est, Israël: non poteris stare coram hostibus tuis, donec deleatur ex te qui hoc contaminatus est scelere.