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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Joshua 6:26.
Joshua 6:26-27
Excerpted from: Psalm Genres (Part Two): Imprecatory PsalmsJoshua 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.
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