Joshua 7:7
"O, Lord GOD," Joshua said, "why did You ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
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wherefore

Exodus 5:22, 23
So Moses returned to the LORD and asked, "Lord, why have You brought trouble upon this people? Is this why You sent me? . . .

Numbers 14:3
Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?"

2 Kings 3:10
"Alas, " said the king of Israel, "for the LORD has summoned these three kings to deliver them into the hand of Moab!"

Psalm 116:11
In my alarm I said, "All men are liars!"

Jeremiah 12:1, 2
Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease? . . .

Hebrews 12:5
And you have forgotten the exhortation that addresses you as sons: "My son, do not make light of the Lord's discipline, or lose heart when He rebukes you.

to deliver

Exodus 14:11, 12
They said to Moses, "Was it because there are no graves in Egypt that you brought us into the wilderness to die? What have you done to us by bringing us out of Egypt? . . .

Exodus 17:3
But the people thirsted for water there, and they grumbled against Moses: "Why have you brought us out of Egypt--to kill us and our children and livestock with thirst?"

Numbers 20:4, 5
Why have you brought the LORD's assembly into this wilderness for us and our livestock to die here? . . .

Matthew 17:17, 20
"O unbelieving and perverse generation!" Jesus replied. "How long must I remain with you? How long must I put up with you? Bring the boy here to Me." . . .

Matthew 8:17, 18
This was to fulfill what was spoken through the prophet Isaiah: "He took on our infirmities, and carried our diseases." . . .

would to

Exodus 16:3
"If only we had died by the LORD's hand in the land of Egypt!" they said. "There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!"

and dwelt

Joshua 1:2-4
"Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land I am giving to the children of Israel. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord GOD, why did You ever bring this people over the Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing to dwell beyond the Jordan!

King James Bible
And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Oh, Lord GOD," Joshua said, "why did You ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites for our destruction? If only we had been content to remain on the other side of the Jordan!

International Standard Version
"Lord GOD," Joshua asked, "Why have you brought this people across the Jordan River? To hand us over to the Amorites so we'll be destroyed? Wouldn't it have been better for us to be content to settle on the other side of the Jordan?

NET Bible
Joshua prayed, "O, Master, LORD! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?
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