Joshua 7:7

Overview - Joshua 7
The Israelites are smitten at Ai.
Joshua's complaint.
10 God instructs him what to do.
16 Achan is taken by the lot.
19 His confession.
24 He and all he had are destroyed in the valley of Achor.
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Joshua 7:7  (King James Version)
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
 


wherefore
Exodus 5:22 Exodus 5:23 ; Numbers 14:3 ; 2 Kings 3:10 ; Psalms 116:11 ; Jeremiah 12:1 Jeremiah 12:2 ; Hebrews 12:5

to deliver
Exodus 14:11 Exodus 14:12 ; 17:3 Numbers 20:4 Numbers 20:5 ; Matthew 17:17 Matthew 17:20 ; Mark 8:17 Mark 8:18

would to
Exodus 16:3

and dwelt
1:2-4