the young men Vulg. juvenes. Comp. Genesis 22:3, "And Abraham rose up early … and took twoof his young menwith him;" Judges 8:20, "And he said unto Jether his firstborn, Up, and slay them. But the youthdrew not his sword."
all her kindred Heb. families.
without the camp of Israel Comp. Leviticus 24:14; Numbers 31:19. As heathen, they were unclean, and must therefore remain a specified time, probably seven days, "without the camp."
Verse Joshua 6:23. _BROUGHT OUT RAHAB, AND HER FATHER, C._] Rahab having been faithful to her vow of secrecy, the Israelites were bound by the oath of the spies, who acted as their representatives in...
The part of the wall adjoining Rahab’s house had not fallen along with the rest. Rahab and “all that she had,” i. e., the persons belonging to her household, were brought out and “left without the cam...
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 ...
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
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Potysyndeton_ in verses: Joshua 6:23. App-6....
_VER._ 23. _AND LEFT THEM WITHOUT THE CAMP_— They were brought out of the house, because that was to be burned with the rest of the city; but being unclean they could not be received into the camp, as...
_The Sparing of Rahab Joshua 6:22-27_ 22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye s...
_AND THE YOUNG MEN THAT WERE SPIES WENT IN, AND BROUGHT OUT RAHAB, AND HER FATHER, AND HER MOTHER, AND HER BRETHREN, AND ALL THAT SHE HAD; AND THEY BROUGHT OUT ALL HER KINDRED, AND LEFT THEM WITHOUT T...
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...
AND LEFT THEM] lit. 'and. caused them to rest.'...
COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 6 V1 The people in Jericho kept their gate...
AND LEFT THEM. — Literally, _caused them to rest. _...
וַ יָּבֹ֜אוּ הַ נְּעָרִ֣ים הַֽ מְרַגְּלִ֗ים ו
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...
Joshua 6:22 CHAPTER XIII. RAHAB SAVED. Joshua 6:17; Joshua 6:22. It has not been the lot of Rahab to share the devout interest which has been lavished on Mary Magdalene. Our Correggios, Titians, an...
SPARED WHEN OTHERS PERISHED Joshua 6:22 It is not the amount of truth that we know which saves us, but the grasp with which we hold it. All that Rahab knew was very slight and partial, but she held t...
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...
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...
And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them (n) withou...
_Men. Hebrew, "boys;" a name given to people advanced in years. --- Camp. A respect for the majesty of God, would not permit the Israelites to introduce unbelievers into the camp. They were first inst...
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...
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...
23._And the young men that were spies went in, _etc God, doubtless, wished those to be safe, whose minds he thus inclined to embrace deliverance. Had it been otherwise, they would have rejected it not...
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...
AND THE YOUNG MEN THAT WERE SPIES WENT IN, AND BROUGHT OUT RAHAB,.... Not only went into the city, but into Rahab's house, which they knew again by the scarlet thread hung out at the window of it. But...
_And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without t...
_The harlot's house_ Which, together with the wall upon which it leaned, was left standing, by a special favour of God to her. _Left them without the camp of Israel_ Till they were cleansed from the i...
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...
Arid the young men that were spies, who had performed the work of spies in the instance referred to, WENT IN AND BROUGHT OUT RAHAB, her house having evidently not fallen, although it was built against...
RAHAB SAVED AT THE OVERTHROW OF JERICHO...
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...
KINDRED: _ Heb._ families...
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,...
Till they were cleansed from the impurities of their Gentile state, and instructed in the Jewish religion, and solemnly admitted into that church in the usual way, to which Rahab's good counsel and ex...
Joshua 6:23 men H5288 spies H7270 (H8764) in H935 (H8799) out H3318 (H8686) Rahab H7343 father...
‘ And the young men, the spies, went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. All her kindred also they brought out, and they set them outside...
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...
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...
_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...
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....
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:23 RAHAB... AND ALL WHO BELONGED TO HER are spared, in keeping with the promise in Joshua 2:14,...
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...
EXPOSITION RAHAB'S DELIVERANCE. THE CURSE ON JERICHO.— JOSHUA 6:22 HAD SAID. Here we have an instance of the use of the perfect as a pluperfect. We can hardly suppose, as Keil observes, that Joshua...
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...
1 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 10:28; Acts 27:24; Ephesians 2:12; Genesis
Without the camp of Israel — 'Till they were cleansed from the impurities of their Gentile state, and instructed in the Jewish religion, and solemnly admitted into that church, for which Rahab's good...