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

Love must be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil, cling to what is good.

Therefore "come out from their midst, and be separate," says the Lord, "and touch no unclean thing, and I will welcome you,

Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Pure and undefiled religion before God the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their misfortune and to keep oneself unstained by the world.

Little children, guard yourselves from idols.

Lest ye make

But the Israelites disobeyed the command about the city's riches. Achan son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, stole some of the riches. The Lord was furious with the Israelites.

You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the Lord will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

Make the camp

Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenantal commandment! They have taken some of the riches; they have stolen them and deceitfully put them among their own possessions.

Now today you dare to turn back from following the Lord! You are rebelling today against the Lord; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

Then someone from the army informed him, "Your father put the army under a strict oath saying, 'Cursed be the man who eats food today!' That is why the army is tired."

Wisdom is better than weapons of war, but one sinner can destroy much that is good.

He said to them, "Pick me up and throw me into the sea to make the sea quiet down, because I know it's my fault you are in this severe storm."

And trouble it

Joshua said, "Why have you brought disaster on us? The Lord will bring disaster on you today!" All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)

During David's reign there was a famine for three consecutive years. So David inquired of the Lord. The Lord said, "It is because of Saul and his bloodstained family, because he murdered the Gibeonites."

When Ahab saw Elijah, he said to him, "Is it really you, the one who brings disaster on Israel?"

General references

As for the cities of these peoples that the Lord your God is going to give you as an inheritance, you must not allow a single living thing to survive.

When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.