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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:18

“ And you, under any circumstances, keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest having devoted it you take of the devoted thing. So would you make the camp of Israel devoted and bring trouble to it.” The warning is severe. They were devoting the city to YHWH and all were to ensure they did not take for themselves anything they had devoted, for by bringing it into any part of the camp of Israel they would make that part of the camp also ‘devoted to YHWH’ and all in it would have to be slain. read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:19

“ But all the silver and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to YHWH. They shall come into the treasury of YHWH.” These things were mentioned as the most valuable and desirable, but, as the people were aware, everything in the city was devoted and belonged to YHWH exclusively. Nothing must be retained for personal use. Their idols should be destroyed in fire (Deuteronomy 7:25). Anything of value would go into the treasury in the Tabernacle for religious use (compare Numbers 31:54),... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:20

Joshua 6:20 a ‘So the people shouted when they blew with the trumpets, and so it was that when the people heard the trumpet-sound, the people shouted with a great shout.’ Note the concentration on the noise made. The trumpets sound and the people shout. ‘The trumpet-sound’ is literally ‘the sound of the trumpet’, the singular drawing attention to the sound rather than the trumpets. This was the long blast of Joshua 6:5. Now the city would recognise that the moment had come for them to put up... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:21

‘ And they devoted (utterly destroyed as an offering to YHWH) all that was in the city, both men and women, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.’ Warfare is ever a dreadful business. Even practically speaking they dared not leave men alive in their rear who could attack them from behind when they went on. And to leave the women and children alone and undefended would have been unacceptable. death would be seen as preferable. But here Jericho was the... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:22

‘ And Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the country, “Go to the prostitute's house and bring out from there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.” ’ In the excitement of victory Joshua did not forget the oath sworn to Rahab. His sensitivity was revealed in sending to her the two men whom she knew, and his wisdom was revealed in giving her some protection at a time when she might have been very vulnerable. She was relatively safe in the house with its token on the... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:23

‘ And the young men, the spies, went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had. All her kindred also they brought out, and they set them outside the camp of Israel.’ As they had sworn to do the two spies ensured the safety of Rahab and all her wider family who had gathered in her house. We note, however, that ‘they set them outside the camp of Israel’ in a camp of their own. They could not enter the camp for they were ‘devoted’ and were... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:24

‘ And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it, only the silver and the gold, and the vessels of brass and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of YHWH.’ This was a purifying ritual, devoting all to YHWH. Even the latter were probably burned for purification before being put into the treasury (Numbers 31:22-23). “The house of YHWH.” Compare Judges 19:18; Judges 20:18; Genesis 28:17; 1 Samuel 1:7; Exodus 23:19; Exodus 34:26. The ‘house of YHWH’ was the place where He was... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:25

‘ And Joshua saved alive Rahab the prostitute, and her father's household, and all she had, and she dwelt in the midst of Israel even to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.’ Note the emphasis on ‘saved alive’. Thus was fulfilled the oath that they would live (see Joshua 2:13-14). They did not remain long outside the camp for they became members of the congregation of Israel. ‘Dwelt in the midst of Israel’ can signify Canaanites dwelling among the... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:26

‘ And Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before YHWH who rises up, and builds this city Jericho. He will lay the foundation of it with the loss of his firstborn, and with his youngest son he will set up the gates of it.” ’ Having devoted everything to YHWH Joshua now devoted the mound itself to YHWH. He put on it a curse, that a city should not be rebuilt on it (Deuteronomy 13:16), in the strongest terms he could think of. The loss of a firstborn and of a... read more

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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:27

‘ So YHWH was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.’ At what had happened fear spread throughout Canaan. The name of Joshua was on every tongue. Or was it the name of YHWH? In the final analysis it was both. But far more important was the fact that YHWH was with him. read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:18

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:19

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:21

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:22

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:23

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:24

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:25

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:26

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:27

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