Joshua 6:1

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Now Jericho was shut tightly because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter.

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  • Josh 2:7 : 7 Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.
  • Josh 2:9-9 : 9 She said to the men,“I know the LORD is handing this land over to you. We are absolutely terrified of you, and all who live in the land are cringing before you. 10 For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan. 11 When we heard the news we lost our courage and no one could even breathe for fear of you. For the LORD your God is God in heaven above and on earth below! 12 So now, promise me this with an oath sworn in the LORD’s name. Because I have shown allegiance to you, show allegiance to my family. Give me a solemn pledge 13 that you will spare the lives of my father, mother, brothers, sisters, and all who belong to them, and rescue us from death.” 14 The men said to her,“If you die, may we die too! If you do not report what we’ve been up to, then, when the LORD hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance to you.”
  • Josh 2:24 : 24 They told Joshua,“Surely the LORD is handing over all the land to us! All who live in the land are cringing before us!”
  • 2 Kgs 17:4 : 4 The king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea was planning a revolt. Hoshea had sent messengers to King So of Egypt and had not sent his annual tribute to the king of Assyria. So the king of Assyria arrested him and imprisoned him.
  • Ps 127:1 : 1 A song of ascents, by Solomon. If the LORD does not build a house, then those who build it work in vain. If the LORD does not guard a city, then the watchman stands guard in vain.

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  • Josh 6:2-3
    2 verses
    80%

    2The LORD told Joshua,“See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, along with its king and its warriors.

    3Have all the warriors march around the city one time; do this for six days.

  • Josh 2:1-3
    3 verses
    75%

    1Joshua Sends Spies into the Land Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them:“Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.

    2The king of Jericho received this report:“Note well! Israelite men have come here tonight to spy on the land.”

    3So the king of Jericho sent this order to Rahab:“Turn over the men who came to you– the ones who came to your house– for they have come to spy on the whole land!”

  • Josh 6:10-11
    2 verses
    74%

    10Now Joshua had instructed the army,“Do not give a battle cry or raise your voices; say nothing until the day I tell you,‘Give the battle cry.’ Then give the battle cry!”

    11So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the LORD around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

  • Josh 6:14-17
    4 verses
    74%

    14They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.

    15On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before– only this time they marched around it seven times.

    16The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams’ horns and Joshua told the army,“Give the battle cry, for the LORD is handing the city over to you!

    17The city and all that is in it must be set apart for the LORD; only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.

  • Josh 6:20-27
    8 verses
    74%

    20The rams’ horns sounded and when the army heard the signal, they gave a loud battle cry. The wall collapsed and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.

    21They annihilated with the sword everything that breathed in the city, including men and women, young and old, as well as cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

    22Joshua told the two men who had spied on the land,“Enter the prostitute’s house and bring out the woman and all who belong to her as you promised her.”

    23So the young spies went and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and took them to a place outside the Israelite camp.

    24But they burned the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the LORD’s house.

    25Yet Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho.

    26At that time Joshua made this solemn declaration:“The man who attempts to rebuild this city of Jericho will stand condemned before the LORD. He will lose his firstborn son when he lays its foundations and his youngest son when he erects its gates!”

    27The LORD was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.

  • Ezek 44:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1The Closed Gate Then he brought me back by way of the outer gate of the sanctuary which faces east, but it was shut.

    2The LORD said to me:“This gate will be shut; it will not be opened, and no one will enter by it. For the LORD, the God of Israel, has entered by it; therefore it will remain shut.

  • Josh 10:30
    73%

    30The LORD handed it and its king over to Israel, and Israel put the sword to all who lived there; they left no survivors. They did to its king what they had done to the king of Jericho.

  • Heb 11:30
    72%

    30By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

  • Josh 6:7
    72%

    7And he told the army,“Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”

  • Josh 6:5
    72%

    5When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, have the whole army give a loud battle cry. Then the city wall will collapse and the warriors should charge straight ahead.”

  • Josh 16:7
    71%

    7It then descended from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, touched Jericho, and extended to the Jordan River.

  • Josh 5:1
    71%

    1When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the LORD had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.

  • Luke 19:1
    71%

    1Jesus and Zacchaeus Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through it.

  • Josh 24:11
    71%

    11You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The leaders of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.

  • Josh 8:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16All the reinforcements in Ai were ordered to chase them; they chased Joshua and were lured away from the city.

    17No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

  • Josh 2:7
    70%

    7Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.

  • Num 22:1
    70%

    1Balaam Refuses to Curse Israel The Israelites traveled on and camped in the rift valley plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.

  • Josh 4:1
    70%

    1Israel Commemorates the Crossing When the entire nation was on the other side, the LORD told Joshua,

  • Josh 4:19
    69%

    19The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

  • Josh 5:10
    69%

    10So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month in the rift valley plains of Jericho.

  • Josh 11:13
    69%

    13But Israel did not burn any of the cities located on mounds, except for Hazor; it was the only one Joshua burned.

  • Josh 16:1
    69%

    1Joseph’s Tribal Lands The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

  • Josh 3:1
    69%

    1Israel Crosses the Jordan Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan. They camped there before crossing the river.

  • Josh 3:16
    69%

    16the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam(the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the rift valley(the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.

  • Josh 10:20
    69%

    20Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.

  • Neh 7:36
    69%

    36the descendants of Jericho, 345;

  • Josh 8:22
    69%

    22At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees.

  • Ezra 2:34
    68%

    34the men of Jericho: 345;

  • 1 Kgs 16:34
    68%

    34During Ahab’s reign, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, in keeping with the LORD’s message that he had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

  • Josh 12:9
    68%

    9the king of Jericho(one), the king of Ai– located near Bethel–(one),