Joshua 6:27 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country. ”

• Joshua 6:27 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Joshua 5:13 to Joshua 6:27 . The Capture of Jericho. The narrative begins at Joshua 5:13 ; Joshua 6:1 is an insertion (observe that RV places it in brackets), so that Joshua 6:2 should imme...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country. So the Lord was with Joshua - Giving him miraculous assistance in all his enterprises; and this was what he was natu...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  The Capture of Jerich This chapter describes the first and perhaps most decisive action in the war. The impression it produced ( Joshua 6:27 ) no doubt did much to decide the fortunes of subse...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XII. THE FATE OF JERICHO. Joshua 6:8-27 . THE instructions of Joshua to the priests and the people are promptly obeyed. In the bright rays of the morning sun, on the day when Jericho is...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Spared When Others Perished Joshua 6:22-27 It is not the amount of truth that we know which saves us, but the grasp with which we hold it. All that Rahab knew was very slight and partial, but s...

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• Joshua 6:27 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  All the preparation being completed, the hosts of God moved forward as the scourge of God in judgment on the corrupt peoples of the land. It is impossible to imagine anything more calculated to impr...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  In the strict sense of the original, that the word of the Lord was with Joshua, no doubt is meant the uncreated word, as with Moses during the whole of his ministry. Exodus 3:4 ; Acts 7:38 REFLEC...

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• Joshua 6:27 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So the Lord was with Joshua ,.... Counselling and directing him what to do, prospering and succeeding him in all that he engaged; the Targum is, "the Word of the Lord was for the help of Joshua;''...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So the Lord was with Joshua The Chaldee interprets it, The Word of the Lord was with him, even Christ, the eternal Word, the same that was with Moses. Nothing makes a man more truly great than to...

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• Joshua 6:27 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JERICHO DESTROYED Joshua and Israel having been fully prepared by God, their conquest of Canaan begins. Jericho, with its thick walls, was securely shut up (v.1), prepared for a long siege; but ce...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Jericho Destroyed; Preservation of Rahab. B. C. 1451.       17 And the city shall be accursed,...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 6:27 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ So YHWH was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.' At what had happened fear spread throughout Canaan. The name of Joshua was on every tongue. Or was it the name of YHWH? In the final...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 6:26 . Cursed be the man … that buildeth this city Jericho. It is exceedingly difficult to accept the generally received view, and to believe that this curse relates mere...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 6:4 . Seven trumpets of rams' horns. Josephus uses this term, “rams' horns:” but in most versions it is holy trumpets, or trumpets used in the Jubilee, as seems to be implied by the Hebrew...

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• Joshua 6:27 - The Biblical Illustrator

  The wall fell down flat. The fight of faith Of uninspired poems, perhaps the most widely read are those which celebrate a siege--the siege of Troy. Homer and Virgil have sung in noble numbers t...

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• Joshua 6:27 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION RAHAB 'S DELIVERANCE . THE CURSE ON JERICHO .— Joshua 6:22 Had said. Here we have an instance of the use of the perfect as a pluperfect. We can hardly suppose, as Kei...

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• Joshua 6:27 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  Rahab Saved at the Overthrow of Jericho

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• Joshua 6:27 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Samuel 2:30 ; 2 Corinthians 13:14 ; 2 Samuel 7:9 ; 2 Timothy 4:17 ; 2 Timothy 4:22 ; Acts 18:10 ; Acts 18:9 ; Deuteronomy 31:6 ; Genesis 39:2 ; Genesis 39:21 ; Genesis 39:3 ; Joshua 1:5...

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• Joshua 6:27 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  The word of the Lord was with him — (So the Chaldee:) Even Christ himself, the same that was with Moses. Nothing makes a man appear more truly great, than to have the evidences of God's presence wi...

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