Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Was straitly
Because
General references
Bible References
Was straitly
Joshua 2:7
So the men pursued after them on the way to the Jordan as far as the fords. And the gate was shut as soon as the pursuers had gone out.
2 Kings 17:4
But the king of Assyria found treachery in Hoshea, for he had sent messengers to So, king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Assyria, as he had done year by year. Therefore the king of Assyria shut him up and bound him in prison.
Because
Joshua 2:9
and said to the men, "I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that the fear of you has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away before you.
Psalm 127:1
Unless the LORD builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the LORDwatches over the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.
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Acts 5:1
But a man named Ananias, with his wife Sapphira, sold a piece of property,