Joshua 6:17

Overview - Joshua 6
Jericho is shut up.
God instructs Joshua how to beseige it.
12 The city is compassed.
17 It must be accursed.
20 The walls fall down.
22 Rahab is saved.
26 The builder of Jericho is cursed.
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Joshua 6:17  (King James Version)
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.
 


accursed
or, devoted.
7:1 Leviticus 27:28 Leviticus 27:29 ; Numbers 21:2 Numbers 21:3 ; 1 Corinthians 2:7 ; Ezra 10:8 ; *marg:
Isaiah 34:6 ; Jeremiah 46:10 ; Ezekiel 39:17 ; Micah 4:13 ; 1 Corinthians 16:22 ; Galatians 3:10 Galatians 3:12

only Rahab
2:1

because
Joshua 6:22 Joshua 6:23 ; Joshua 2:4-6 Joshua 2:22 Genesis 12:3 ; 1 Samuel 15:6 ; Matthew 10:41 Matthew 10:42 ; 25:40 Hebrews 6:10
Hebrews 11:31 ; James 2:25