Joshua 6:18

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

In any wise

1 John 5:21

Lest ye make

Joshua 7:1

Deuteronomy 7:26

Deuteronomy 13:17

Make the camp

Jonah 1:12

And trouble it

Joshua 7:25

2 Samuel 21:1

1 Kings 18:17

General references

Deuteronomy 20:16

Deuteronomy 23:9

Bible References

In any wise

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.

For which cause, Come out from among them, and be separate, says the Lord, and let no unclean thing come near you; and I will take you for myself,

And have no company with the works of the dark, which give no fruit, but make their true quality clear;

The religion which is holy and free from evil in the eyes of our God and Father is this: to take care of children who have no fathers and of widows who are in trouble, and to keep oneself untouched by the world.

My little children, keep yourselves from false gods.

Lest ye make

But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the family of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving the Lord to wrath against the children of Israel.

And you may not take a disgusting thing into your house, and so become cursed with its curse: but keep yourselves from it, turning from it with fear and hate, for it is a cursed thing.

Keep not a thing of what is cursed for yourselves: so the Lord may be turned away from the heat of his wrath, and have mercy on you, and give you increase as he said in his oath to your fathers:

Make the camp

Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement which I made with them: they have even taken of the cursed thing; acting falsely like thieves they have put it among their goods.

That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.

Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.

Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.

And he said to them, Take me up and put me into the sea, and the sea will become calm for you: for I am certain that because of me this great storm has come on you.

And trouble it

And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.

In the days of David they were short of food for three years, year after year; and David went before the Lord for directions. And the Lord said, On Saul and on his family there is blood, because he put the Gibeonites to death.

And when he saw Elijah, Ahab said to him, Is it you, you troubler of Israel?

General references

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:

When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.