约书亚记 7:6

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約書亞和眾長老的求問約書亞就撕裂自己的衣服，和以色列人的長老，在耶和華的約櫃前，一同俯伏在地，直到晚上，也把塵土撒在頭上。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 书 亚 便 撕 裂 衣 服 ； 他 和 以 色 列 的 长 老 把 灰 撒 在 头 上 ， 在 耶 和 华 的 约 柜 前 俯 伏 在 地 ， 直 到 晚 上 。

Contextual Overview

⁶ Then Joshua tore his clothes in sorrow. He bowed facedown on the ground before the Ark of the Lord and stayed there until evening. The leaders of Israel did the same thing. They also threw dirt on their heads to show their sorrow. ⁷ Then Joshua said, "Lord God , you brought our people across the Jordan River. Why did you bring us this far and then let the Amorites destroy us? We would have been happy to stay on the other side of the Jordan. ⁸ Lord, there is nothing I can say now. Israel has been beaten by the enemy. ⁹ The Canaanites and all the other people in this country will hear about this and will surround and kill us all! Then what will you do for your own great name?"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

rent: Genesis 37:29, Genesis 37:34, Numbers 14:6, 2 Samuel 13:31, Ezra 9:3-5, Esther 4:1, Job 1:20, Acts 14:14

fell: Numbers 16:22, Numbers 16:45, 2 Samuel 12:16

until the eventide: Judges 20:23, Judges 20:26, Judges 21:2, 2 Samuel 1:12

put dust: Rending the clothes, beating the breast, tearing the hair, throwing dust upon the head, and falling prostrate, were usual signs of deep affliction and distress among the ancient Israelites. In illustration of this custom, see note on 1 Samuel 4:12, when the messenger brought tidings to Eli of the discomfiture of the armies of Israel by the Philistines; again, in the case of Tamar, 2 Samuel 13:19, and in Nehemiah 9:1, when a whole nation, "assembled with fasting, and with sackcloth, and earth upon them." In the case of Mordecai, see note on Esther 4:1. See note on Job 2:12, where his friends abased themselves to comfort him. See note on Ezekiel 27:30, see note on Jonah 3:6, and see note on Micah 1:10. In each of these instances it is worthy of remark, that putting dust on the head generally follows rending of the clothes, and was the usual mode of evincing poignant sorrow.

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:17 - fell Numbers 20:6 - they fell Joshua 7:10 - liest Joshua 8:1 - Fear not 2 Samuel 1:2 - clothes 2 Samuel 3:31 - Rend 1 Kings 18:42 - he cast himself Lamentations 2:10 - cast up Lamentations 3:39 - a man Ezekiel 9:8 - that I Ezekiel 11:13 - Then Revelation 18:19 - they cast

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
After Noah was 500 years old, he became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Genesis 8:13
When Noah was six hundred and one years old, in the first day of the first month of that year, the water was dried up from the land. Noah removed the covering of the boat and saw that the land was dry.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua rent his clothes,.... As was usual in those ancient times, on hearing bad news, and as expressive of grief and trouble r; see Genesis 37:29;

and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord, until the eventide; in a posture of adoration and prayer, in which he continued till even; how long that was cannot be said, since the time is not mentioned when the army returned from Ai; very probably it was some time in the afternoon: this was done before the ark of the Lord, the symbol of the divine Presence, not in the most holy place, where that usually was, and into which Joshua might not enter, but in the tabernacle of the great court, over against where the ark was:

he and the elders of Israel; either the elders of the people in the several tribes, or rather the seventy elders, which were the sanhedrim or council, and which attended Joshua, and assisted him as such;

and put dust upon their heads; another rite or ceremony used in times of mourning and distress, and that very anciently, before Joshua's time and after, see Job 2:12; and among various nations; so when Achilles bewailed the death of Patroclus, he is represented by Homer s taking with both his hands the black earth, and pouring it on his head; so Aristippus among the Athenians is said t to sprinkle dust on his head in token of mourning on a certain account.

r "Tum pius", Aeneas, &c. Virgil. Aeneid. l. 5. prope finem. s αμφοτερησι τε χερσιν, &c. Iliad. 18. ver. 23. Vid. Odyss. 24. "Sparsitque cinis", &c. Seneca, Troad. Act. 1. Chorus. t Heliodor. Aethiop. l. 1. c. 13.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

On these signs of mourning, compare the marginal references and Leviticus 10:6; Numbers 20:6; 1 Samuel 4:12.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 7:6. Joshua rent his clothes, c. — It was not in consequence of this slight discomfiture, simply considered in itself, that Joshua laid this business so much to heart but

1. Because the people melted, and became as water, and there was little hope that they would make any stand against the enemy; and

2. Because this defeat evidently showed that God had turned his hand against them. Had it not been so, their enemies could not have prevailed.

Put dust upon their heads. — Rending the clothes, beating the breast, tearing the hair, putting dust upon the head, and falling down prostrate, were the usual marks of deep affliction and distress. Most nations have expressed their sorrow in a similar way. The example of the distressed family of King Latinus, so affectingly related by Virgil, may be adduced in illustration of many passages in the history of the patriarchs, prophets, apostles, c.

Regina ut testis venientem prospicit hostem__

Purpureos moritura manu discindit amictus__

Filia prima manu flavos Lavinia crines,

Et roseas laniata genas.__

. . . . . . It scissa veste Latinus__

Canitiem immundo perfusam pulvere turpans.

AEn. lib. xii., ver. 594.

"The queen, who saw the foes invade the town,

And brands on tops of burning houses thrown,

She raves against the gods, she beats her breast,

And tears, with both her hands, her purple vest.

The sad Lavinia rends her yellow hair,

And rosy cheeks the rest her sorrow share.

Latinus tears his garments as he goes,

Both for his public and his private woes;

With filth his venerable beard besmears,

And sordid dust deforms his silver hairs."

DRYDEN.