Yahweh said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face like that?
Parallel translations
- KJV And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?
- BSB But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
- ESV The LORD said to Joshua, “Get up! Why have you fallen on your face?
- NKJV So the Lord said to Joshua: “Get up! Why do you lie thus on your face?
- NASB So the Lord said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?
- NLT But the Lord said to Joshua, “Get up! Why are you lying on your face like this?
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Quick answer
God told Joshua to get up, for this was not a time merely to lie prostrate. Action was needed to deal with the sin that had caused the defeat.
Overview
God interrupts Joshua's mourning with a call to rise and act. Prayer was appropriate, but the situation now required confronting the hidden sin in the camp. The Lord teaches that there is a time to grieve and a time to obey, dealing decisively with the cause of trouble rather than remaining in passive lament.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- 1 Sam 16:1Yahweh said to Samuel, “How long will you mourn for Saul, since I have rejected him from being king over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go. I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided a king for myself among his sons.”
- Exod 14:15Yahweh said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me? Speak to the children of Israel, that they go forward.
- 1 Sam 15:22Samuel said, “Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying Yahweh’s voice? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
- 1 Chr 22:16of the gold, the silver, the brass, and the iron, there is no number. Arise and be doing, and may Yahweh be with you.”
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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.
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