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Joshua 6 Young's Literal Translation

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1 (And Jericho shutteth itself up, and is shut up, because of the presence of the sons of Israel — none going out, and none coming in;) 2 And Jehovah saith unto Joshua, 'See, I have given into thy hand Jericho and its king — mighty ones of valour, 3 and ye have compassed the city — all the men of battle — going round the city once; thus thou dost six days; 4 and seven priests do bear seven trumpets of the jubilee before the ark, and on the seventh day ye compass the city seven times, and the priests blow with the trumpets, 5 and it hath been, in the prolongation of the horn of the jubilee, in your hearing the voice of the trumpet, all the people shout — a great shout, and the wall of the city hath fallen under it, and the people have gone up, each over-against him.' 6 And Joshua son of Nun calleth unto the priests, and saith unto them, 'Bear ye the ark of the covenant, and seven priests do bear seven trumpets of the jubilee before the ark of Jehovah;' 7 and He said unto the people, 'Pass over, and compass the city, and he who is armed doth pass over before the ark of Jehovah.' 8 And it cometh to pass, when Joshua speaketh unto the people, that the seven priests bearing seven trumpets of the jubilee before Jehovah have passed over and blown with the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is going after them; 9 and he who is armed is going before the priests blowing the trumpets, and he who is gathering up is going after the ark, going on and blowing with the trumpets; 10 and the people hath Joshua commanded, saying, 'Ye do not shout, nor cause your voice to be heard, nor doth there go out from your mouth a word, till the day of my saying unto you, Shout ye — then ye have shouted.' 11 And the ark of Jehovah doth compass the city, going round once, and they come into the camp, and lodge in the camp. 12 And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and the priests bear the ark of Jehovah, 13 and seven priests bearing seven trumpets of the jubilee before the ark of Jehovah are walking, going on, and they have blown with the trumpets — and he who is armed is going before them, and he who is gathering up is going behind the ark of Jehovah — going on and blowing with the trumpets. 14 And they compass the city on the second day once, and turn back to the camp; thus they have done six days. 15 And it cometh to pass, on the seventh day, that they rise early, at the ascending of the dawn, and compass the city, according to this manner, seven times; (only, on that day they have compassed the city seven times); 16 and it cometh to pass, at the seventh time, the priests have blown with the trumpets, and Joshua saith unto the people, 'Shout ye, for Jehovah hath given to you the city; 17 and the city hath been devoted, it and all that [is] in it, to Jehovah; only Rahab the harlot doth live, she and all who [are] with her in the house, for she hid the messengers whom we sent; 18 and surely ye have kept from the devoted thing, lest ye devote [yourselves], and have taken from the devoted thing, and have made the camp of Israel become a devoted thing, and have troubled it; 19 and all the silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, holy they [are] to Jehovah; into the treasury of Jehovah they come.' 20 And the people shout, and blow with the trumpets, and it cometh to pass when the people hear the voice of the trumpet, that the people shout — a great shout, and the wall falleth under it, and the people goeth up into the city, each over-against him, and they capture the city; 21 and they devote all that [is] in the city, from man even unto woman, from young even unto aged, even unto ox, and sheep, and ass, by the mouth of the sword. 22 And to the two men who are spying the land Joshua said, 'Go into the house of the woman, the harlot, and bring out thence the woman, and all whom she hath, as ye have sworn to her.' 23 And the young man, the spies, go in and bring out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all whom she hath; yea, all her families they have brought out, and place them at the outside of the camp of Israel. 24 And the city they have burnt with fire, and all that [is] in it; only, the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass, and of iron, they have given [to] the treasury of the house of Jehovah; 25 and Rahab the harlot, and the house of her father, and all whom she hath, hath Joshua kept alive; and she dwelleth in the midst of Israel unto this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 26 And Joshua adjureth [them] at that time, saying, 'Cursed [is] the man before Jehovah who raiseth up and hath built this city, [even] Jericho; in his first-born he doth lay its foundation, and in his youngest he doth set up its doors;' 27 and Jehovah is with Joshua, and his fame is in all the land.

People & places in this chapter

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People

  • Rahab

    Mother of Boaz

    The woman of Jericho who hid the spies and became mother of Boaz.

    Cited in the guide: Joshua 2, 6; Matthew 1:5; Hebrews 11:31

Places

  • Jericho

    Today: West Bank (Jordan Valley)

    Jericho guarded the eastern entrance to Canaan. The Old Testament city (Tell es-Sultan) fell to Joshua; Herodian Jericho nearby is where Jesus healed Bartimaeus and called Zacchaeus.

    Cited in the guide: Joshua 6:20; Luke 19:1-10; Luke 10:30

Cross references (26)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Joshua 2:24; Joshua 2:9–14; Psalm 127:1; Joshua 2:7
  2. 2 Deuteronomy 7:24; Joshua 8:1; Joshua 2:24; Joshua 2:9; Nehemiah 9:24
  3. 3 2 Corinthians 4:7; Numbers 14:9; 1 Corinthians 1:21–25; Joshua 6:7; Joshua 6:14
  4. 4 2 Chronicles 20:17; Revelation 16:1; Judges 7:15–22; Revelation 8:2; 1 Kings 18:43
  5. 5 2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Hebrews 11:30; Exodus 19:19; Joshua 6:16; 2 Chronicles 13:14–15
  6. 6 Deuteronomy 20:2–4; Acts 9:1; Joshua 3:3; Exodus 25:14; Joshua 3:6
  7. 7 Joshua 4:13; Joshua 6:3; Joshua 1:14
  8. 8 Numbers 32:20; Joshua 6:3–4
  9. 9 Joshua 6:13; Numbers 10:25; Isaiah 58:8; Isaiah 52:11–12
  10. 10 Isaiah 42:2; Luke 24:49; Matthew 12:19; 2 Samuel 5:23–24; Isaiah 28:16
  11. 12 Joshua 3:1; Hebrews 11:7–8; Deuteronomy 31:25; Joshua 6:6–8; John 6:10–11
  12. 13 Galatians 6:9; Matthew 24:13; 1 Chronicles 15:26
  13. 14 Joshua 6:11; Joshua 6:3; Joshua 6:15
  14. 15 Psalm 119:147; 2 Peter 1:19; Matthew 28:1
  15. 16 2 Chronicles 13:15; Joshua 6:5; Judges 7:20–22; 2 Chronicles 20:22–23
  16. 17 Deuteronomy 20:17; James 2:25; Micah 4:13; 1 Corinthians 2:7; Galatians 3:12
  17. 18 1 John 5:21; Ephesians 5:11; Joshua 7:11–12; Joshua 7:1; Joshua 7:25
  18. 19 1 Chronicles 26:20; Matthew 27:6; Mark 12:41; 2 Kings 24:13; 1 Chronicles 18:11
  19. 20 Hebrews 11:30; 2 Corinthians 10:4–5; Joshua 6:5
  20. 21 Psalm 137:8–9; Jeremiah 48:18; 1 Samuel 15:3; Joshua 10:39; Joshua 9:24–25
  21. 22 Hebrews 11:31; Ezekiel 17:18–19; Joshua 6:17; Psalm 15:4; Ezekiel 17:16
  22. 23 Hebrews 11:7; Genesis 12:2; 1 Corinthians 5:12; Acts 27:24; Ephesians 2:12
  23. 24 Joshua 8:28; Revelation 17:16; 2 Kings 25:9; Revelation 18:8; Deuteronomy 13:16
  24. 25 Hebrews 11:31; Judges 1:24–25; Matthew 1:5; Joshua 2:6; James 2:25
  25. 26 1 Kings 16:34; Acts 19:13; Numbers 5:19–21; Matthew 26:63; 1 Samuel 14:24–46
  26. 27 Joshua 1:5; Joshua 9:3; Matthew 18:20; Matthew 28:20; Joshua 9:1

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 6:5 Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm LV)

    The Ark is going around the walls of Jericho: there shall come a time at the seventh going round of the Ark, when all the walls of the city unbelieving and contradicting shall fall. Until it come to pass, this man is being troubled in his exercise; and enduring the remains of men contradicting, he would choose wings for flying …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)