Joshua 7:10

Amplified Bible

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

Parallel Translations

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

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

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

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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?

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

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?

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?

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

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

Contextual Overview

¹⁰So the LORD said to Joshua, "Get up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?¹¹"Israel has sinned; they have also transgressed My covenant which I commanded them [to keep]. They have even taken some of the things under the ban, and they have both stolen and denied [the theft]. Moreover, they have also put the stolen objects among their own things. ¹²"That is why the soldiers of Israel could not stand [and defend themselves] before their enemies; they turned their backs [and ran] before them, because they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from among you. ¹³"Rise up! Consecrate the people and say, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: "There are things under the ban among you, O Israel. You cannot stand [victorious] before your enemies until you remove the things under the ban from among you." ¹⁴'In the morning you shall come forward by your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe which the LORD chooses by lot shall come forward by families, and the family which the LORD chooses shall come forward by [separate] households, and the household which the LORD chooses shall come forward man by man. ¹⁵'It shall be that the one who is chosen with the things under the ban shall be [killed and his body] burned with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he has done a disgraceful and disobedient thing in Israel.'"

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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
"For behold, I, even I, will bring a flood of waters on the earth, to destroy all life under the heavens in which there is the breath and spirit of life; everything that is on the land shall die.

Genesis 7:4
"For in seven days I am going to cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights; and I will destroy (blot out, wipe away) every living thing that I have made from the surface of the earth."

Genesis 7:17
The flood [the great downpour of rain] was forty days and nights on the earth; and the waters increased and lifted up the ark, and it floated [high] above the land.

Genesis 7:20
[In fact] the waters became fifteen cubits higher [than the highest ground], and the mountains were covered.

Job 22:16
Men who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundations were poured out like a river?

Luke 17:27
the people were eating, they were drinking, they were marrying, they were being given in marriage, [they were indifferent to God] until the day that Noah went into the ark, and the flood came and destroyed 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.