Jos 6 | TSK | STEP | Jericho is shut up. God instructs Joshua how to beseige it. The city is compassed. It must be accursed. The walls fall down. Rahab is saved. The builder of Jericho is cursed. was straitly. Heb. did shut up, and was shut up. because.

trumpets of rams'.The words {shopheroth hyyovelim,} should rather be rendered jubilee, trumpets, i.e., such as were used on the jubilee, which were probably made of horn or silver: for the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan was indeed a jubilee to them (See Note on Le 25:11): instead of the dreadful trumpet of war, they were ordered to sound the trumpet of joy, as already conquerors.

Le 25:9; Nu 10:1-10; Jud 7:7,8,15-22; 2Ch 13:12; 20:17,19,21

Isa 27:13; Zec 4:6

seven times.

Ge 2:3; 7:2,3; Le 4:6; 14:16; 25:8; Nu 23:1; 1Ki 18:43; 2Ki 5:10

Job 42:8; Zec 4:2; Re 1:4,20; 5:1,6; 8:2,6; 10:3; 15:1,7; 16:1

make a long.

16,20; Ex 19:19; 2Ch 20:21,22

the people.

Jud 7:20-22; 1Sa 4:5; 17:20,52; 2Ch 13:14,15; Jer 50:15

and the wall.The words {wenaphelah chomath hair tachteyha,} are literally, "and the wall of the city shall fall down under itself;" which appears simply to mean, that the wall shall fall down from its very foundation; which was probably the case in every part, though large breaches in different places might have been amply sufficient first to admit the armed men, after whom the host might enter to destroy the city. There is no ground for the supposition that the walls sunk into the earth.

Isa 25:12; 30:25; 2Co 10:4,5; Heb 11:30

flat. Heb. under it.

Take up the ark.

8,13; 3:3,6; Ex 25:14; De 20:2-4; Ac 9:1

that is armed.

3; 1:14; 4:13

before the Lord.

3,4; Nu 32:20

and the rereward. Heb. gathering. host.

13; Nu 10:25; Isa 52:11; 58:8

any noise with your voice. Heb. your voice to be heard.

Isa 42:2; Mt 12:19

until the day.

2Sa 5:23,24; Isa 28:16; Lu 24:49; Ac 1:7

Joshua rose.

3:1; Ge 22:3

the priests.

6-8; De 31:25; Joh 2:5-8; 6:10,11; 9:6,7; Heb 11:7,8

went on.

1Ch 15:26; Mt 24:13; Ga 6:9

3,11,15

about the dawning.

Ps 119:147; Mt 28:1; 2Pe 1:19

only on that day.

Shout.

5; Jud 7:20-22; 2Ch 13:15; 20:22,23

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

adjured.This is to be regarded as a prediction, that he who rebuilded this city should lose all his children in the interim between the laying of the foundation to the completion of the walls.

Nu 5:19-21; 1Sa 14:24-46; 1Ki 22:16; Mt 26:63; Ac 19:13

Cursed.

1Ki 16:34; Mal 1:4

the Lord.

1:5,9; Ge 39:2,3,21; De 31:6; Mt 18:20; 28:20; Ac 18:9,10

2Co 13:14; 2Ti 4:17,22

his fame.

9:1,3,9; 1Sa 2:30; 2Sa 7:9; Mt 4:24; 14:1