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Scriptural Text [& Editorial]
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Commentary & Explanation
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Footnotes ~ References ~ JST
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CHAPTER 6
Jericho is taken and destroyed—Only Rahab and her household are
saved
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1 NOW aJericho
was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and
none came in.
2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour.
3 And ye shall acompass the city,
all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt
thou do six days.
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4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
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6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests,
and said unto them, Take up the aark of the covenant, and
let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the
LORD.
7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
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8 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
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9 ¶ And the armed men went before the priests
that blew with the trumpets, and athe rereward came after
the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
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12 ¶ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
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15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
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17 ¶ And the city shall be accursed, even
it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the
aharlot shall live, she and all that are with her in
the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from
athe accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves
accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a
curse, and trouble it.
19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
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20 So the people shouted when the priests
blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound
of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the
awall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
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21 And they utterly adestroyed all
that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and
sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
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 sware unto her.
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23 And the young men that were spies went in, and
brought out aRahab, 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 the camp of Israel.
24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
25 And Joshua saved
Rahaba the harlot alive, and
her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in
Israela even unto this day;
because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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25a Joshua saved Rahab ... and her
father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel
Rahab would seem to have been an unmarried woman for all that is with her
is spoken of as being of her father's house, that is her father, her mother,
and her brethren and all her kindred. It is argued whether she was a host of
and inn, that is an innkeeper or a harlot; not that she would not have been
a combination of both. Yet she had performed a service unto God, converted
to the Hebrew religion and Jewish tradition holds that she did marry Joshua
and by him have two daughters, which daughters became the mothers of a number
of notible men in Israel including prophets. Traditional genealogies as in
the book of Ruth and Matthew would seem to have made her mother of Boaz and
wife of Salmon. But that is unlikely as Ruth does not marry Boaz until some
300 plus years from the time of Jericho. Dividing that 300 years between
Rahab and Boaz logistically makes Rahab to have been way to old to have
mothered Boaz and/or Boaz having to have lived multiple times beyond that age
of man stipulated in the later Old Testament of the times of the Judges. It
seem much more likely that a daughter or grand daughter of Rahab name Rachab
after her 'grandmother' was the real mother of Boaz and maternal connecting
link between the Ephraimite family of the covenant of Elimelech from Joshua
and the Jewish family of the 'distant' cousin kinsman/brother of Elimelech,
namely Boaz, who performed the function of the redeeming kinsman to raise up
seed to the dead Mahlon and the house hold of Elimelech and Naomi.
(See: Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben
Joseph)
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26 ¶ And Joshua aadjured
them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD,
that riseth up and buildeth this city bJericho: he shall
lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son
shall he set up the gates of it.
27 So the LORD was awith
bJoshua; and his fame was cnoised
throughout all the country.
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