Joshua 6:1
VI. (1) NOW JERICHO... — This verse should be read parenthetically, and Joshua 6:2 should be taken as the orders given to Joshua by the captain of the Lord’s host.... [ Continue Reading ]
VI. (1) NOW JERICHO... — This verse should be read parenthetically, and Joshua 6:2 should be taken as the orders given to Joshua by the captain of the Lord’s host.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEVEN TRUMPETS OF RAMS’ HORNS. — Literally, _trumpets of jubilee_ — i.e., of loud or joyful sound.... [ Continue Reading ]
PASS ON, AND COMPASS THE CITY. — The meaning of this proceeding becomes clearer when we remember that the centre of the procession is the written law of God. The ark is the vessel that contains it. The armed men that precede it are its executioners. The priests who blow the trumpets are its heralds.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PRIESTS GOING ON. — Literally, _with a going, and a blowing with the trumpets._” The priests” is inserted by the Targum.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CITY SHALL BE ACCURSED. — Heb., _shall be chêrem,_ “a devoted or accursed thing”; and so Joshua 6:18, “from the accursed thing.” (See Note on Deuteronomy 7:26.) The combination of the two ideas of devotion to God and utter destruction may be seen in the sin offering (Leviticus 6:25), which is ca... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SILVER, AND GOLD, AND VESSELS OF BRASS AND IRON... INTO THE TREASURY OF THE LORD. — See Numbers 31:22; Numbers 31:54, where something similar was done with the spoil of the Midianites.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 the vengeance of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND LEFT THEM. — Literally, _caused them to rest. _... [ Continue Reading ]
AND JOSHUA SAVED RAHAB THE HARLOT ALIVE. — “By faith the harlot Rahab perished not with them that believed not” (Hebrews 11:31). And so Jesus said to her who had ministered to Him in the house of Simon the Pharisee, “Thy sins are forgiven;” and again, “Thy faith hath saved thee: go in peace” Luke 7:... [ Continue Reading ]
CURSED BE THE MAN... THAT... BUILDETH THIS CITY JERICHO. — As the marginal reference indicates, the curse of Joshua was not incurred until Hiel the Bethelite built the city, in the reign of Ahab. But the “city of palm-trees” is (somewhat doubtfully) identified with Jericho, and this was occupied by... [ Continue Reading ]