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Joshua 6 Bible study: The wall fell down flat
The LORD said "I have given Jericho into your hand" (6:2) before anyone marched a step, and for six days Israel walked around the city, told not to say a word (6:10). The wall fell just as he had said it would (6:5, 6:20). And Joshua's oath over the city came to pass in Ahab's day, "according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Joshua" (1 Kings 16:34).
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“The LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.”
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“The LORD told Joshua he had given Jericho into his hand before Israel marched around it even once.”
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Given before the first step
Jericho was closed: "Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in" (6:1) (tap shut up). By Jericho, Joshua had just met one who said, "I have come now as commander of the LORD’s army" (5:14), and had taken off his sandals as he was told (5:15). Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor" (6:2). He says it before anyone has marched a single step. Rahab had said it to the spies: "I know that the LORD has given you the land" (2:9). On the seventh day Joshua says it again: "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city!" (6:16). And the LORD will say it of the next city: "Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai" (8:1).
Where it leads to Jesus
By faith the walls fell
Joshua 6:20leads toHebrews 12:2
"The people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat" (6:20), after Israel had marched around the city once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh (6:14-15). Hebrews names it among the acts of faith: "By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days" (Hebrews 11:30). It says of all in that list that they "didn’t receive the promise" (Hebrews 11:39), and calls its readers to run "looking to Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith" (Hebrews 12:2).
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- The ark in the middle
- Silence, then a shout
- Devoted to the LORD
- The walls and Rahab, side by side
- A word spoken by Joshua
- As I was with Moses
- 9 questions as you read
- 11 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
חֵרֶםcheremsay KHE-rem
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "devoted thing", and "devotion, ban". Strong's: "usually a doomed object". It is the noun of the verb charam (tap utterly destroyed). "The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD" (6:17). In the next verse it comes three times: "what is devoted to destruction", "the devoted thing", and "make the camp of Israel accursed" (6:18), where accursed is the same word: the camp itself would become devoted. Moses had warned of it: "You shall not bring an abomination into your house and become a devoted thing like it" (Deuteronomy 7:26). In the next chapter it happens: "they have become devoted for destruction" (7:12). The law says, "Everything that is permanently devoted is most holy to the LORD" (Leviticus 27:28).
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Joshua 6 Bible study questions
- 1For six days Israel walked around the city once and went back to camp (6:14), and the wall didn't fall until the seventh day (6:20). What helps you keep doing what God has asked when you can't yet see anything happening?
- 2Rahab was brought out of Jericho, and she came to live "in the middle of Israel" (6:25). What would it look like for your group to make room in the middle for someone new?
- 3Nothing in Jericho was Israel's to keep: the city was devoted to the LORD, and its metals were "holy to the LORD" (6:17-19). What is hardest for you to hand over to God completely, without keeping a little back?
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