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Verse Joshua 6:21. _THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED - BOTH MAN, AND WOMAN, C._]
As this act was ordered by God himself, who is the Maker and Judge of
all men, it must be _right_: for the Judge of all the earth...
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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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DESTROYED devoted to destruction Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6),
to be thus supplied.
WITH THE EDGE. according to the mouth. "Mouth" by Figure of speech
_Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6. without qua...
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_they utterly destroyed_ In the instance of the other cities of
Canaan, as in those of Sihon and Og, the inhabitants were destroyed,
but he cattle were preserved. Comp. (_a_) Joshua 8:26; Joshua 10:28...
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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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DISCOURSE: 248
THE TAKING OF JERICHO
Joshua 6:20. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the
trumpets: and it came to pats, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, and the people sho...
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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 THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THAT WAS IN THE CITY, BOTH MAN AND
WOMAN, YOUNG AND OLD, AND OX, AND SHEEP, AND ASS, WITH THE EDGE OF THE
SWORD._
No JFB commentary on this verse....
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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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AND OX, AND SHEEP, AND ASS. — Even the animals must be destroyed,
that Israel might not seem to be slaughtering the Canaanites for the
sake of plunder. Everything was ordered in such a way as to mark...
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וַֽ יַּחֲרִ֨ימוּ֙ אֶת ־כָּל ־אֲשֶׁ֣ר
בָּ †...
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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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I have brought these verses together into one point of view, because
they present to the Reader in one and the same moment what the apostle
saith: Behold the goodness and severity of God. Romans 11:22...
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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 THEY UTTERLY DESTROYED ALL THAT [WAS] IN THE CITY,.... All the
inhabitants of it, by the direction of Joshua, and according to the
order of the Lord, Deuteronomy 7:1; being guilty of capital crime...
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And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the
sword.
Ver. 21. _And they utterly destroyed all._] So God ha...
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_Young and old_ Being commanded to do so by the sovereign Lord of
every man's life; and being informed by God before that the Canaanites
were abominably wicked, and deserved the severest punishments....
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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 they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the
sword, for it was the Lord's war of extermination....
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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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Being commanded to do so by the sovereign Lord of every man's life;
and being informed by God before that the Canaanites were abominably
wicked, and deserved the severest punishments. As for the infan...
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Joshua 6:21 destroyed H2763 (H8686) city H5892 man H376 woman H802
young H5288 old H2205 ox H7794 sheep...
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‘ And they devoted (utterly destroyed as an offering to YHWH) all
that was in the city, both men and women, young and old, and ox, and
sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.'
Warfare is ever a dr...
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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 6:21 DEVOTED... TO DESTRUCTION. See note on
vv. 17–18.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 6:23. And left them without the camp] Till they had undergone
ceremonial purification they would be regarded as unclean, and, as
such, they were forbidden to come where the Lo...
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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 Kings 20:42; 1 Samuel 15:18; 1 Samuel 15:3; 1 Samuel 15:8;...
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How can the total destruction of Jericho be morally justified?
PROBLEM: This passage states that the Israelites “utterly destroyed
all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, ox and...