Joshua 24:7

Protection and safety God's power and sovereignty

⁵ Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.

⁶ When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

⁸ Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.

⁹ Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
KJV: And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
WEB: When they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
ASV: And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many days.
DARBY: Then they cried to Jehovah, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt; and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
BLB: And they cried out to YHWH, and He put darkness between you⁺ and between the Egyptians, and He brought upon them the sea and covered them, and your⁺ eyes saw what I did against Egypt, and you⁺ dwelt in the wilderness many days.

ÅB: Da ropte de til Herren, og han satte et mørke mellom dere og egypterne og lot havet slå sammen over dem, så det skjulte dem; med egne øyne så dere hva jeg gjorde i Egypt. Siden bodde dere en lang tid i ørkenen.
OTB: Men da de ropte til Herren, satte han mørke mellom dere og egypterne, og han førte havet over dem og dekket dem. Deres egne øyne så hva jeg gjorde i Egypt. Så bodde dere i ørkenen i lang tid.
B1930: Da ropte de til Herren, og han satte et mørke mellem eder og egypterne og lot havet slå sammen over dem, så det skjulte dem; med egne øine så I hvad jeg gjorde i Egypten. Siden bodde I en lang tid i ørkenen.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
Read in context
Exodus 14:20
so that it came between the camps of Egypt and Israel. The cloud was there in the darkness, but it lit up the night. So all night long neither camp went near the other.
Read in context
Exodus 14:10
As Pharaoh approached, the Israelites looked up and saw the Egyptians marching after them, and they were terrified and cried out to the LORD.
Read in context
Nehemiah 9:12–21
You led them with a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night, to light for them the way in which they should travel.
Read in context
Exodus 14:31
When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.
Read in context
Exodus 14:27–28
So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and at daybreak the sea returned to its normal state. As the Egyptians were retreating, the LORD swept them into the sea.
Read in context
Psalms 95:9–10
where your fathers tested and tried Me, though they had seen My work.
Read in context
Joshua 5:6
For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Read in context