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6. THE FALL OF JERICHO
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The divine instruction (Joshua 6:1)_
2. The instructions followed (Joshua 6:6)
3. The fall of Jericho (Joshua 6:20)
4. Rahab remembered ...
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JOSHUA 5:13 TO JOSHUA 6:27. THE CAPTURE OF JERICHO. The narrative
begins at Joshua 5:13; Joshua 6:1 is an insertion (observe that RV
places it in brackets), so that
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TROUBLE IT.. warning of Achan's sin (Joshua 7:25)....
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_in any wise keep yourselves_ A warning, which Achan neglected to the
destruction of himself and his family. See chap. 7....
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Capture and Destruction of Jericho
6. _And Joshua_ In obedience to the commands thus received Joshua
implicitly carries out the instructions given him and issues the
needful orders to the host....
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_VER._ 18. _IN ANY WISE KEEP YOURSELVES FROM THE ACCURSED THING,_
&C.— "Be sure not to carry off for your private emolument any of the
spoil of your enemy: ye are to consider it as _a thing devoted to...
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_The City Destroyed Joshua 6:12-21_
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the
ark of the Lord
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams-' horns before the
ark of t...
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_AND YE, IN ANY WISE KEEP YOURSELVES FROM THE ACCURSED THING, LEST YE
MAKE YOURSELVES ACCURSED, WHEN YE TAKE OF THE ACCURSED THING, AND MAKE
THE CAMP OF ISRAEL A CURSE, AND TROUBLE IT._
In any wise k...
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THE CAPTURE OF JERICH
This chapter describes the first and perhaps MOST decisive _action in_
the war. The impression it produced (Joshua 6:27) no doubt did much to
decide the fortunes of subsequent ca...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 6
V1 The people in Jericho kept their gate...
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וְ רַק ־אַתֶּם֙ שִׁמְר֣וּ מִן ־הַ
חֵ֔רֶם
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CHAPTER XII.
THE FATE OF JERICHO.
Joshua 6:8.
THE instructions of Joshua to the priests and the people are promptly
obeyed. In the bright rays of the morning sun, on the day when Jericho
is to be su...
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JERICHO TAKEN AND “DEVOTED”
Joshua 6:12
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down,” Hebrews 11:30. Whose
faith? To some extent it was the faith of the people, who marched
round them day by day in full...
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All the preparation being completed, the hosts of God moved forward as
the scourge of God in judgment on the corrupt peoples of the land.
It is impossible to imagine anything more calculated to impres...
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WHEN GOD BROUGHT DOWN THE WALLS
Joshua 6:1-27
When Joshua met the captain of the host of the Lord in chapter 5, he
asked him, "What does my Lord say to his servant?" He first told
Joshua to take off...
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_Forbidden, transgression, sin. Hebrew has always anathema. (Haydock)_...
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Is there not a sweet spiritual sense here? Doth not God mean to say,
that they who have Jesus for their portion, should see in him all they
need, and not have their eyes look with an evil covetousness...
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The passing of the Jordan was a wondrous and significant event; but it
was not everything. It sank deep into the consciences of the
Canaanites on all sides; but there was more that was needed, and mor...
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In chapter 6 we find the principles on which the conquests of Israel
are founded. The work is altogether God's. He may indeed exercise His
people in conflict, but it is He who does all. "They went up...
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AND YOU IN ANY WISE KEEP [YOURSELVES] FROM THE ACCURSED THING,....
From laying hold on, secreting, and enjoying as their own, what was
devoted to another use:
LEST YE MAKE [YOURSELVES] ACCURSED; or a...
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_Keep yourselves from the accursed thing_ It should rather be
rendered, _the devoted thing_, meaning the spoils _devoted to the
Lord._ These they were not to touch, on pain of being themselves
devoted...
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1 Iericho is shut vp.
2 God instructeth Ioshua how to besiege it.
12 The citie is compassed.
17 It must be accursed.
20 The walles fall downe.
22 Rahab is saued.
26 The builder of Iericho is cur...
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And ye, in any wise, by all means, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM THE ACCURSED
THING, LEST YE MAKE YOURSELVES ACCURSED, become polluted with the
curse which God had pronounced upon the city and all it contained...
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RAHAB SAVED AT THE OVERTHROW OF JERICHO...
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JERICHO DESTROYED
Joshua and Israel having been fully prepared by God, their conquest of
Canaan begins. Jericho, with its thick walls, was securely shut up
(v.1), prepared for a long siege; but certa...
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17-27 Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice
of God, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He
appoints, from whom, as creatures, they received their lives,...
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MAKE THE CAMP OF ISRAEL A CURSE, by provoking God to punish them for
your sin, in which they may be one way or other involved; or at least
upon the occasion of your sin: for, to speak properly God wil...
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Joshua 6:18 means H7535 abstain H8104 (H8798) things H2764 accursed
H2763 (H8686) take H3947 (H8804) things...
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“ And you, under any circumstances, keep yourselves from the devoted
thing, lest having devoted it you take of the devoted thing. So would
you make the camp of Israel devoted and bring trouble to it.”...
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CONTENTS: Conquest of Jericho.
CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests, Rahab, 2 spies.
CONCLUSION: The victories of faith are often to be won by means, and
upon principles utterly foolish and inadequate i...
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Joshua 6:4. _Seven trumpets of rams' horns._ Josephus uses this term,
“rams' horns:” but in most versions it is holy trumpets, or
trumpets used in the Jubilee, as seems to be implied by the Hebrew
wor...
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_The wall fell down flat._
THE FIGHT OF FAITH
Of uninspired poems, perhaps the most widely read are those which
celebrate a siege--the siege of Troy. Homer and Virgil have sung in
noble numbers the p...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:1 Taking the Land. Although the Promised
Land is God’s gift to the Israelites (Joshua 6:2), now that they are
in the land they must conquer it....
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:17 DEVOTED TO THE LORD FOR DESTRUCTION. See
notes on Lev. 27:28–29; De
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 6:17. The city shall be accursed] _Heb. Cherem_. Absolute
devotion to God is here meant. Every devoted thing was to be set apart
as consecrated to Him, and every devoted person...
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EXPOSITION
THE VICTORY.—
JOSHUA 6:1
This verse (see above) is parenthetical. It explains why the captain
of the Lord's host appeared unto Joshua. The inhabitants of Jericho,
though in a state of the...
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So in chapter six we begin the conquering of the land. The method by
which they took Jericho was very fascinating indeed.
The Lord said to Joshua, I have given to you the city of Jericho, and
its king...
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1 John 5:21; 1 Kings 18:17; 1 Kings 18:18; 1 Samuel 14:28;...
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A curse — By provoking God to punish them for your sin, in which
they may be one way or other involved; or the whole camp having sins
of their own, God might take what occasion he saw fit to inflict t...