Joshua 6:26 - Forerunner Commentary

Joshua 6:26

24 But they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.

25 And Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had. So ^ashe dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

26 Then Joshua¹ charged them at that time, saying, ^a“Cursed be the man before the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country.

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Joshua 6:26-27

Joshua invokes a curse on anybody who would dare to rebuild Jericho. Now this does not necessarily mean that anybody who would live, let us say, on the mound that was Jericho, was cursed to give two sons, because we find out from other places that there was settlement there between this time of Joshua and later when somebody actually did try to rebuild Jericho and actually succeeded.

So it does not mean that the curse would come down on anyone who would just try to live there. It really means that the curse would come down on a person who tried to build it into a fortified city and use it as the people of Jericho had used it in Joshua's time. We know that Joshua could make this curse with some confidence. Obviously he was inspired to do this, to make this prophecy.

Excerpted from Psalm Genres (Part Two): Imprecatory Psalms

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