Jos 7:6-7 | ESV | STEP | Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening , he and the elders of Israel . And they put dust on their heads .

a Gen. 37:29, 34; Num. 14:6; 2 Sam. 1:11; 13:31

Joshua 7:6-7

6 Then Joshua ^atore his clothes and ^bfell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel. And they put ^cdust on their heads. 7 And Joshua said, “Alas, O Lord God, ^dwhy have you brought this people over the Jordan at all, to give us into the hands of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell beyond the Jordan!