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Yosua 7:5

Sebab orang-orang Ai menewaskan kira-kira tiga puluh enam orang dari mereka; orang-orang Israel itu dikejar dari depan pintu gerbang kota itu sampai ke Syebarim dan dipukul kalah di lereng. Lalu tawarlah hati bangsa itu amat sangat.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Cowardice;   Shebarim;   Thompson Chain Reference - Courage-Fear;   Cowardice;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Water;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Achan;   Ai;   Anathema;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Devote, Devoted;   Ezekiel, Theology of;   Punishment;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Shebarim;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ai;   Joshua, the Book of;   Shebarim;   Water;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ai;   Jericho;   Joshua;   Shebarim;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ai, Hai ;   Shebarim ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Achan;   Ai;   Anathema;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - A'i;   Sheb'arim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Quarries;   Shebarim;   Targum;   Waters;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ai;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Repentance;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Sebab orang-orang Ai menewaskan kira-kira tiga puluh enam orang dari mereka; orang-orang Israel itu dikejar dari depan pintu gerbang kota itu sampai ke Syebarim dan dipukul kalah di lereng. Lalu tawarlah hati bangsa itu amat sangat.
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka orang Ai membunuh kira-kira tiga puluh enam orang dari pada mereka itu dan lagi diusirnya akan mereka itu dari pada pintu negerinya datang kepada Syebarim, lalu dipecah-pecahkannya mereka itu pada curam bukit, maka hilanglah hati orang banyak itu menjadi tawarlah seperti air.

Contextual Overview

1 But yet the chyldren of Israel trespassed in ye forbydden thyng: for Achan ye sonne of Charmi, the sonne of Zabdi, ye sonne of Zareth, of the tribe of Iuda, toke of the forbydden thyng: And the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot against the chyldren of Israel. 2 And Iosuah sent men from Iericho to Ai, which is besyde Bethauen, on the east syde of Bethel, and spake vnto them, saying: Get you vp, and viewe the countrey. And the men went vp, & viewed Ai, 3 And returned to Iosuah, and sayde vnto him, Let not all the people go vp: but let as it were two or three thousande men go vp, and smyte Ai: and make not all the people to labour thyther, for they are but fewe. 4 And so there went vp thyther of the people about a three thousande men, and they fled before the men of Ai. 5 And the men of Ai smote of them vpon a thirtie and sixe men: for they chased them from before the gate euen vnto Sebarim, and smote them in the goyng downe: Wherfore the heartes of the people for feare melted away lyke water.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

for they: Deuteronomy 1:44

the going down: or, Morad

wherefore: Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:11, Joshua 5:1, Leviticus 26:36, Psalms 22:14, Isaiah 13:7

Reciprocal: Numbers 14:45 - the Amalekites Numbers 21:1 - then Joshua 8:5 - as at Joshua 22:20 - General Judges 20:31 - thirty 1 Samuel 4:2 - Israel 2 Samuel 17:9 - some 1 Chronicles 21:7 - he smote Psalms 58:7 - General Psalms 89:43 - not made Ecclesiastes 9:18 - sinner

Cross-References

Genesis 6:22
Noah therfore dyd according vnto all that God commaunded hym [euen] so dyd he.
Exodus 39:32
Thus was all the worke of the tabernacle [euen] of the tabernacle of the congregation finished: And the children of Israel did according to al that the lorde commaunded Moyses, euen so did they.
Exodus 40:16
And Moyses dyd accordyng to all that the Lorde commaunded hym, euen so dyd he.
Psalms 119:6
I shall take then no shame: when I haue regarde vnto all thy commaundementes.
Matthew 3:15
Iesus aunsweryng, sayde vnto hym: Suffer it to be so nowe. For thus it becommeth vs, to fulfyll all righteousnes. Then he suffred hym.
Luke 8:21
He aunswered, and sayde vnto them: My mother & my brethren are these, which heare the worde of God, & do it.
John 2:5
His mother sayth vnto the ministers: Whatsoeuer he sayth vnto you, do it.
John 13:17
Yf ye knowe these thynges, happy are ye, yf ye do them.
Philippians 2:8
He humbled hym selfe, made obedient vnto death, euen the death of the crosse.
Hebrews 5:8
Though he were the sonne, yet learned he obediece, by these thinges which he suffred:

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men,.... In the pursuit of them, which were but few, but a sufficient rebuke of Providence; their loss was but small, but their shame and disgrace great:

for they chased them [from] before the gate; the gate of the city of Ai:

[even] unto Shebarim; not that there was a place of this name before, but it was so called from hence, because there they were broken, as Kimchi observes; and the Targum and Jarchi render it,

"until they were broken,''

their lines broken, not being able to retreat in order, but were scattered, and fled to their camp as they could: Gussetius q thinks it was the; name of a place, but not so called for the above reason, but because there lay broken pieces of the rock scattered about:

and smote them in the going down; the hill from Ai; "Morad", rendered "going down", may taken for the proper name of a place, and which, Kimchi says, was a place before Ai, in which there was a declivity and descent, and in that place they smote them when they fled:

wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water; that is, the whole body of the people, when this little army returned defeated, their spirits failed them, their courage was lost, their nerves were loosed, and they became languid, faint, and feeble; not that their loss was so great, but that they perceived God had forsaken them, and what the issue of this would be they dreaded.

q Comment. Ebr. p. 825.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Shebarim - Rather, perhaps, “the stone quarries.” The smallness of the slaughter among the Israelites indicates that they fled early, probably without real conflict in battle.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 7:5. They chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim — They seem to have presumed that the men of Ai would have immediately opened their gates to them, and therefore they marched up with confidence; but the enemy appearing, they were put to flight, their ranks utterly broken, and thirty-six of them killed. שברים Shebarim signifies breaches or broken places, and may here apply to the ranks of the Israelites, which were broken by the men of Ai; for the people were totally routed, though there were but few slain. They were panic-struck, and fled in the utmost confusion.

The hearts of the people melted — They were utterly discouraged; and by this gave an ample proof that without the supernatural assistance of God they could never have conquered the land.


 
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