Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 7:7
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Joshua7:7
7 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 Amorite to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan.
This and the following Clause, though well intended, and offered to God only by way of Expostulation and Argument, yet do favour of Humane Infirmity, and fall short of that reverence, and modesty, and submission, which he owed to God; and are mentioned as instances that the Holy men of God were subject to like passions and infirmities with other men.
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