Joshua 7:9

9. And cut off our name Our enemies will be encouraged to make a combined assault, and destroy our communications with eastern Palestine.

And what wilt thou do unto thy great name? That is, with regard to thy great name. Exalted and true views of God are necessary to elevate man and restore in him the image of God. Reverence for him is the basis of all true holiness. The preservation of the glory of God’s name in order that monotheism should finally be the religion of the earth was, according to God’s plan, the very mission of Israel. Joshua therefore appropriately argues, Will God defeat that plan, and upset the whole of Israel’s future history? It does not detract from this prayer to say that the successive arguments used to move God are eminently human such as a man would address to his fellow. Moses, in his entreaty, for his nation, uses the same argument. Numbers 14:13-19; Deuteronomy 9:28.