Joshua 6:17 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 6:17

Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

KJV

And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Accursed - Better as in margin, (“devoted” (Lev 27:28 note). In other cases the inhabitants only of the towns were slain; their cattle and property became the booty of the victors. But Jericho, as the first Canaanite city that was captured, was devoted by Israel as first-fruits to God, as a token that Israel received all the land from Him. Every living thing was put to death (Rahab and her household excepted) as a sacrifice to God, and the indestructible goods were Jos 6:19 brought into the treasury of the sanctuary.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְהָיְתָ֨ה	ve.ha.ye.Tah	and it will be	H1961 →
הָעִ֥יר	ha.'Ir	the city	H5892 →
חֵ֛רֶם	Che.rem	a devoted thing	H2764 →
הִ֥יא	hi'	it	H1931 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and all	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁר־	'a.Sher-	that	H834 →
בָּ֖הּ	bah	[is] in <the> it
לַֽיהוָ֑ה	la.Yah.weh	to Yahweh	H3068 →
רַק֩	rak	only	H7535 →
רָחָ֨ב	ra.Chav	Rahab	H7343 →
הַזּוֹנָ֜ה	ha.zo.Nah	the prostitute	H2181 →
תִּֽחְיֶ֗ה	tich.Yeh	she will live	H2421 →
הִ֚יא	hi'	she	H1931 →
וְכָל־	ve.khol	and every	H3605 →
אֲשֶׁ֣ר	'a.Sher	[one] who	H834 →
אִתָּ֣הּ	'i.Tah	[is] with her	H854 →
בַּבַּ֔יִת	ba.Ba.yit	in the house	H1004 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
הֶחְבְּאַ֔תָה	hech.be.'A.tah	she hid	H2244 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַמַּלְאָכִ֖ים	ha.mal.'a.Khim	the messengers	H4397 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	whom	H834 →
שָׁלָֽחְנוּ׃	sha.La.che.nu	we sent	H7971 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Galatians 3:10
All who rely on works of the law are under a curse. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.”
leads to
- Deuteronomy 27:26
  ‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- Romans 8:7
  because the mind of the flesh is hostile to God: It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.
- Romans 3:19–20
  Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.
Through
Matthew 25:40
And the King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of Mine, you did for Me.’
leads to
- Proverbs 19:17
  Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
- Proverbs 14:31
  Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
- Matthew 10:42
  And if anyone gives even a cup of cold water to one of these little ones because he is My disciple, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.”
- Mark 9:41
  Indeed, if anyone gives you even a cup of water because you bear the name of Christ, truly I tell you, he will never lose his reward.
- 1 Peter 1:22
  Since you have purified your souls by obedience to the truth so that you have a genuine love for your brothers, love one another deeply, from a pure heart.