Lev 27:28-29, Num 33:52, Deu 20:16-17, Jos 6:17-25, 8:24, 9:24, 10:28, 40 | TSK | STEP | no devoted.This is the {cherem,} the absolute, irredeemable grant to God.

Leviticus 27:28-29

no devoted.This is the {cherem,} the absolute, irredeemable grant to God.

21; Ex 22:20; Nu 21:2,3; De 7:1,2; 13:15,16; 20:16,17; 25:19

Jos 6:17-19,26; 7:1,11-13,25; Jud 11:30,31; 21:5,11,18

1Sa 14:24-28,38-45; 15:3,18,32,33; Mt 25:41; Ac 23:12-14; Ro 9:3

None.

which shall be devoted.That is, either that every person devoted to the service of God shall not be redeemed, but die in that devoted state, or, that such as were devoted to death by appointment and law of God, as the Canaanites were, shall be put to death.

Numbers 33:52

Ex 23:24,31-33; 34:12-17; De 7:2-5,25,26; 12:2,3,30,31; 20:16-18

Jos 11:11,12; 23:7; Jud 2:2

Deuteronomy 20:16-17

7:1-4,16; Nu 21:2,3,35; 33:52; Jos 6:17-21; 9:24,27; 10:28,40

Jos 11:11,12,14

thou shalt.

Isa 34:5,6; Jer 48:10; 50:35-40; Eze 38:21-23; Re 19:18

the Hittites.

7:1

Joshua 6:17-25

accursed. or, devoted.

7:1; Le 27:28,29; Nu 21:2,3; 1Co 2:7; Ezr 10:8; *marg:

Isa 34:6; Jer 46:10; Eze 39:17; Mic 4:13; 1Co 16:22; Ga 3:10,12

only Rahab.

2:1

because.

22,23; 2:4-6,22; Ge 12:3; 1Sa 15:6; Mt 10:41,42; 25:40; Heb 6:10

Heb 11:31; Jas 2:25

in any wise.

Ro 12:9; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:11; Jas 1:27; 1Jo 5:21

lest ye make.

7:1,11,12,15; De 7:26; 13:17

make the camp.

7:11,12; 22:18-20; 1Sa 14:28-42; Ec 9:18; Jon 1:12

and trouble it.

7:25; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ki 18:17,18

all the silver.

2Sa 8:11; 1Ch 18:11; 26:20,26,28; 28:12; 2Ch 15:18; 31:12

Isa 23:17,18; Mic 4:13

consecrated. Heb. holiness.

Le 19:24; *marg:

Zec 14:20,21

the treasury.

1Ki 7:51; 14:26; 2Ki 24:13; 1Ch 26:20; Ne 7:70,71; 10:38; Jer 38:11

Mt 27:6; Mr 12:41

the wall.

5; 2Co 10:4,5; Heb 11:30

flat. Heb. under it.

And they.The Canaanites were ripe for destruction; and God was pleased, instead of destroying them by a pestilence, a famine, or an earthquake, to employ the Israelites as the executioners of his vengeance. Had an angel been commissioned to slay them, who would have charged him with iniquity or cruelty? In all public calamities infants are involved; and tens of thousands of infants die in great agony every year. Now, either God is not the agent in these calamities, (which opinion, though often implied in men's reasonings on these subjects, is not far from atheism;) or they must consist with the most perfect justice and goodness.

utterly.

9:24,25; 10:28,39; 11:14; De 2:34; 7:2,3,16; 20:16,17

1Sa 15:3,8,18,19; 1Ki 20:42; Ps 137:8,9; Jer 48:18; Re 18:21

Joshua.

17; 2:1-24

as ye sware unto her.

2:12-14,17-20; 9:15,18-20; 2Sa 21:2,7; Ps 15:4; Eze 17:13,16,18

Eze 17:19; Heb 11:31

out Rahab.

2:18; Ge 12:2; 18:24; 19:29; Ac 27:24; Heb 11:7

kindred. Heb. families. left them.

Nu 5:2,3; 31:19; Ac 10:28; 1Co 5:12; Eph 2:12

burnt.

8:28; De 13:16; 2Ki 25:9; Re 17:16; 18:8

only the silver.

Rahab.

11:19,20; Jud 1:24,25; Ac 2:21; Heb 11:31

she dwelleth.

Mt 1:5

unto.

4:9

because.

Jas 2:25

Joshua 8:24

returned unto Ai.This must refer to the women, children, and old persons left behind; for it seems that all the effective men had sallied out when they imagined the Israelites had fled. (ver. 16.)

10:30-41; 11:10-14; Nu 21:24