Josué 7
Leon Morris · Citado em PreceptAustin
Josué 7
Morris - God is not pleased or placated by prayer--no matter how piously offered--when those praying have not first faced the possibility of sin and corrected it. Unanswered prayer may not usually be caused by sin. Yet this possibility should always be first considered, especially before complaining to God about it, as Joshua was doing. Lange's Commentary - Jehovah is a prayer-hearing God--blessed be His name!--but with what impatience He listens to the cries of those, however proper the matter of their petitions, who have need themselves to act in order that their wishes may be granted! "Up! sanctify thyself," we may hear Him saying to many an earnest suppliant; "put away thy sins, supply thy own deficiencies, and do thy part to remove the stumbling-blocks from among thy brethren; then expect my help towards what thou desirest further." Happy for us if we get even this answer to our mistaken prayer! William Blaikie - Now it is God's turn to speak. "Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?" Why do you turn on Me as if I had suddenly changed, and become forgetful of My promise? Alas, my friends, how often is God slandered by our complaints! How often do we feel and even speak as if He had broken His word and forgotten His promise, as if He had induced us to trust in Him, and accept His service, only to humiliate us before the world, and forsake us in some great crisis! No wonder if God speak sharply to Joshua, and to us if we go in Joshua's steps. No wonder if He refuse to be pleased with our prostration, our wringing of our hands and sobbing and calls us to change our attitude. "Get thee up ; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?" Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary - Verses 10-15. God awakens Joshua to inquiry, by telling him that when this accursed thing was put away, all would be well. Times of danger and trouble should be times of reformation. We should look at home, into our own hearts, into our own houses, and make diligent search to find out if there be not some accursed thing there, which God sees and abhors; some secret lust, some unlawful gain, some undue withholding from God or from others. We cannot prosper, until the accursed thing be destroyed out of our hearts, and put out of our habitations and our families, and forsaken in our lives. When the sin of sinners finds them out, God is to be acknowledged. With a certain and unerring judgment, the righteous God does and will distinguish between the innocent and the guilty; so that though the righteous are of the same tribe, and family, and household with the wicked, yet they never shall be treated as the wicked. GEORGE BUSH Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Joshua - Chapter 7 10. Get thee up. Heb. קם לך kūm lak, rise, or stand up for thyself. Wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? Heb. ‘wherefore this, (that) thou art falling down upon thy face?’ i. e. continuing to fall, doing it again and again. Not the language of rebuke, as though God were displeased with Joshua for prostrating himself in this humble posture, and bemoaning in bitterness of soul the disaster that had befallen Israel; but merely implying that it was now enough; that God would not have him any longer continue that mournful posture; that he had other work to do than to spend time in grieving and afflicting himself in view of what was past; that he must arise and set about discovering the accursed thing, and casting it out; in a word that he must lay aside his mourning weeds, and enter upon that which was especially and pre-eminently at present incumbent upon him. ‘For every thing there is a season, and it behoves us to see that the time is not spent in empty lamentation which God would have devoted to vigorous action in reforming what is amiss.’ Henry. F B
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Morris - the things under the ban - The "accursed thing" was anything in Jericho other than the metallic vessels, which were to be taken "into the treasury of the LORD" (Joshua 6:19). All else was to be "accursed," literally "devoted" to God--that is, offered up to the Lord rather than kept for personal gain (Joshua 6:17). This was accomplished by burning the city to the ground--a great burnt offering. Achan, however, "coveted" and "took" some of the valuables for himself (Joshua 7:21), thus inhibiting God's continued blessing on the Canaanite campaign until the sin could be eliminated from the camp. Mattoon - Notice the pronoun “they” in verse eleven. One person sinned and all were held responsible. The whole nation was considered one body. Infection affects the whole body. This truth is taught in the New Testament as the New Testament church is called a body. Whether you like it or not, your life affects someone else. We affect and infect one another for good or for bad. * No Christian can sin without affecting other Christians or pagans. * You can’t grow cold without lowering the temperature of others. * You cannot be lost in a crowd and be forgotten. * The testimony of the church is reflected in the lives of every believer in the church. Through Achan’s sin, we should learn to never underestimate the amount of damage one person can do outside the will of God. * Abraham’s sin in Egypt almost cost him his wife. (Genesis 12) * David’s disobedience in the unauthorized census lead to the death of 70,000 people. (2 Samuel 24) * Jonah ran from God’s will and almost sank his ship. * Here, Israel is achin because of Achan. * Ecclesiastes 9:18—Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good. (Treasures from Joshua) GEORGE BUSH Notes Critical and Practical on the Book of Joshua - Chapter 7 11. Israel hath sinned. For a view of the reason why this is spoken of as the act of the whole body of Israel, see Note on v. 1. Have also transgressed my covenant. That is, have broken the conditions of the covenant or agreement of general obedience into which they had before entered, Ex. 19:8; 24:7; or, have transgressed the particular precept relative to the accursed thing, ch. 6:19. Covenant, in the Scriptures, often has the sense of command, precept, ordinance. Have also stolen. Have sacrilegiously taken and appropriated to their own use the portion which I had reserved to myself, and ordered to be brought into the treasury. And dissembled also. Have covered the deed with deep dissimulation; instead of ingenuously confessing the sin and imploring pardon, have studiously endeavored to hide it, as if by concealing it from their brethren they had concealed it from me also. The crime is recited with the utmost particularity, in order that its various aggravations may be more impressively set forth. Have put it even among their own stuff. Among their own goods. Joshua 7:11 - A Winning Strategy Israel has sinned, and they have also transgressed My covenant. — Joshua 7:11 Today's Scripture: Joshua 7:1-13 During my days as a high school basketball coach, I made a huge mistake. I sent some of my players to scout an opponent. They returned with this report: We can take those guys easily. Overconfident, we lost to that team. Does that sound familiar? To me, it sounds like the situation at Ai when Joshua sent out his scouts, who misjudged their opponent’s strength. But there was more to the defeat at Ai than bad scouting. Israel lost the battle and 36 soldiers for several reasons that I think we can learn from. Shortly before the loss at Ai, Joshua led his army successfully against Jericho because he knew God’s plan of attack. But there is no mention of Joshua consulting God before Ai. Prior to the battle of Jericho, the men had consecrated themselves to God (Josh. 5:2-8). Before Ai—nothing is said about Joshua’s men preparing themselves spiritually. The reason the Bible gives for the Israelites’ loss is sin in the camp. Achan had stolen from the spoils of Jericho (7:1). They could not defeat Ai until the sin was confessed and the people had consecrated themselves (7:16-26). Then God gave them a plan for victory (8:1-7). Dear Lord, before I go off into the battle today, forgive me of my sin and lead me in the path You want me to go. I want to serve You. Empower me to live for You and Your will. Amen. Purity in the heart produces power in the life. Joshua 7:12 "Therefore the sons of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their enemies, for they have become accursed. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy the things under the ban from your midst. the sons of Israel: Jos 22:18-20 Nu 14:45 Jdg 2:4 Ps 5:4,5 Pr 28:1 Isa 59:2 Hab 1:13 they have become accursed: Jos 6:18 De 7:26 Hag 2:13,14 I will not be with you anymore: Jer 6:8 23:33 Ho 9:12 Joshua 7 Resources - Multiple Sermons and Commentaries Related Passages: Joshua 6:18 “But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. DISOBEDIENCE BRINGS TROUBLE ON THE CAMP Therefore - Term of conclusion and what a tragic conclusion it was! God will fulfill his promised punishment. The sons of Israel cannot (see yakol) stand before their enemies - Sin in the camp makes them unable to stand. The presence and power of God have been removed. They turn their backs before their enemies for they have become accursed (herem) - They will "tuck their tail between their legs" and "turn tail" That is, they would be forced to retreat because they are in danger of being annihilation, accursed (herem)! What a difference one chapter (and one sin) makes! We had just read in Joshua 6:27 that "the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land."