New American Standard Bible 2020
Joshua 6:17-25
17But the city shall be 1designated for 2destruction, it and everything that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the prostitute 3and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. 18But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things designated for destruction, so that you do not covet them and 4take some of the designated things, and turn the camp of Israel into something designated for destruction and bring disaster on it. 195But all the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” 20So the people shouted, and 6the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the 7wall fell down 8flat, so that the people went up into the city, everyone straight 9ahead, and they took the city. 2110They 11utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
22And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “12Go into the prostitute’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, just as you have sworn to her.” 23So the young men who were spies went in and 13brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives, and placed them outside the camp of Israel. 24Then 14they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and the articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the 15house of the Lord. 25However, 16Rahab the prostitute and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua 17spared; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because 18she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Notes
- 1. Joshua 6:17 Lev 27:28; Deut 20:17 ↩
- 2. Joshua 6:17 I.e., as an offering to God ↩
- 3. Joshua 6:17 Lit she and all ↩
- 4. Joshua 6:18 Josh 7:1 ↩
- 5. Joshua 6:19 Num 31:11, 12, 21-23 ↩
- 6. Joshua 6:20 Lit they ↩
- 7. Joshua 6:20 Heb 11:30 ↩
- 8. Joshua 6:20 Lit in its place ↩
- 9. Joshua 6:20 Lit before himself ↩
- 10. Joshua 6:21 Deut 20:16 ↩
- 11. Joshua 6:21 Or put under the ban ↩
- 12. Joshua 6:22 Josh 2:12-19 ↩
- 13. Joshua 6:23 Heb 11:31 ↩
- 14. Joshua 6:24 Deut 20:16-18 ↩
- 15. Joshua 6:24 I.e., tabernacle ↩
- 16. Joshua 6:25 Heb 11:31 ↩
- 17. Joshua 6:25 Lit let live ↩
- 18. Joshua 6:25 Josh 2:6 ↩
Commentaries on Joshua 6
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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