Joshua 7:10

Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord said to Joshua, "Why are you down there with your face on the ground? Stand up!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord then said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen facedown?

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD said to Yehoshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your face?

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

Lexham English Bible
And Yahweh said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

English Standard Version
The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?

New Century Version
The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why are you down on your face?

New English Translation
The Lord responded to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying there face down?

Amplified Bible
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

New American Standard Bible
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord said vnto Ioshua, Get thee vp: wherefore lyest thou thus vpon thy face?

Legacy Standard Bible
So Yahweh said to Joshua, "Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

Contemporary English Version
The Lord answered: Stop lying there on the ground! Get up!

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Y'hoshua, "Stand up! Why are you lying there face down?

Darby Translation
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Rise up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to Joshua, Get up; why do you lie upon your face on the earth?

Good News Translation
The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying on the ground like this?

Literal Translation
And Jehovah said to Joshua, Get up! Why do you fall on your face this way?

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then sayde the LORDE vnto Iosua: Stode vp, why lyest thou so vpon thy face?

American Standard Version
And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you doing with your face to the earth?

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah: Get thee vp, wherfore liest thou thus vpon thy face?

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Get thee up; wherefore, now, art thou fallen upon thy face?

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord saide vnto Ioshua, Get thee vp; wherefore liest thou thus vpon thy face?

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord said to Joshua, Rise up; why hast thou fallen upon thy face?

English Revised Version
And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou thus fallen upon thy face?

Berean Standard Bible
But the LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to Josue, Rise thou; whi liggist thou low in the erthe?

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, `Rise for thee, why [is] this? -- thou [art] falling on thy face?

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh said to Joshua, Get yourself up; why are you thus fallen on your face?

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD said to Joshua, Arise; Why liest thou thus upon thy face?

World English Bible
Yahweh said to Joshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your face?

New King James Version
So the LORD said to Joshua: "Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face?

New Living Translation
But the Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why are you lying on your face like this?

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Joshua, "Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?

New Revised Standard
The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen upon your face?

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And Yahweh said unto Joshua - Get thee up! wherefore is it that thou art lying upon thy face?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on the ground?

Revised Standard Version
The LORD said to Joshua, "Arise, why have you thus fallen upon your face?

THE MESSAGE
God said to Joshua, "Get up. Why are you groveling? Israel has sinned: They've broken the covenant I commanded them; they've taken forbidden plunder—stolen and then covered up the theft, squirreling it away with their own stuff. The People of Israel can no longer look their enemies in the eye—they themselves are plunder. I can't continue with you if you don't rid yourselves of the cursed things.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So the LORD said to Joshua, "Rise up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ The Lord said to Joshua, "Why are you down there with your face on the ground? Stand up! ¹¹ The Israelites sinned against me. They have broken the agreement that I commanded them to obey. They took some of the things that I commanded them to destroy. They have stolen from me. They have lied. They have taken those things for themselves. ¹² That is why the army of Israel turned and ran away from the fight. They did that because they have done wrong. They should be destroyed. I will not continue to help you or be with you unless you destroy everything I commanded you to destroy. ¹³ "Now go and make the people pure. Tell them, ‘Make yourselves pure. Prepare for tomorrow. The Lord , the God of Israel, says that some people are keeping things that he commanded to be destroyed. You will never be able to defeat your enemies until you throw away those things. ¹⁴ "Tomorrow morning you must all stand before the Lord . All the tribes will stand before the Lord , and he will choose one tribe. Only that tribe will stand before him. Then the Lord will choose one family group from that tribe. Only that family group must stand before him. Then he will look at each family in that family group, and the Lord will choose one family. Then he will look at each man in that family. ¹⁵ The man who is keeping those things that we should have destroyed will be caught. Then he will be destroyed by fire, and everything that he owns will be destroyed with him. He broke the agreement with the Lord . He has done a very bad thing to the Israelites!"

Bible Verse Review
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wherefore: Exodus 14:15, 1 Samuel 15:22, 1 Samuel 16:1, 1 Chronicles 22:16

liest: Heb. fallest, Joshua 7:6

Reciprocal: Genesis 42:1 - Why do ye Numbers 14:5 - General Joshua 20:1 - spake Ezra 10:4 - Arise Jonah 1:7 - for Haggai 1:9 - Because

Cross-References

Genesis 6:17
"Understand what I am telling you. I will bring a great flood of water on the earth. I will destroy all living things that live under heaven. Everything on the earth will die.

Genesis 7:4
Seven days from now, I will send much rain on the earth. It will rain for 40 days and 40 nights, and I will wipe everything off the face of the earth. I will destroy everything I made."

Genesis 7:17
Water flooded the earth for 40 days. The water began rising and lifted the boat off the ground.

Genesis 7:20
The water continued to rise above the mountains. The water was more than 20 feet above the highest mountain.

Job 22:16
They were destroyed before it was their time to die. They were washed away by the flood.

Luke 17:27
People were eating, drinking, and getting married even on the day when Noah entered the boat. Then the flood came and killed them all.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Joshua, get thee up,.... From the ground where he lay prostrate, with his face to it: this he said, not as refusing his supplication to him, but rather as encouraging and strengthening him; though chiefly he said this in order to instruct him, and that he might prepare for what he was to do:

wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? in this manner, so distressed and dejected; or for this thing, as the Targum, for this defeat of the army; something else is to be done besides prayer and supplication.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

God’s answer is given directly, and in terms of reproof. Joshua must not lie helpless before God; the cause of the calamity was to be discovered.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 7:10. 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.