Then Joshua (A)tore his clothes and fell to the ground on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel; and (B)they put dust on their heads. And Joshua said, “Oh, Lord [a]God! Why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan, only to hand us over to the Amorites, to eliminate us? If only we had been willing [b]to live beyond the Jordan!

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 7:7 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord
  2. Joshua 7:7 Lit and had lived

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