Did God Prophecy That No One Will Ever Live in Jerich Again

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Why did Joshua curse Jericho in Joshua vi:26?

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Later on the Lord God gave the urban center of Jericho into the easily of Joshua and the people of State of israel, Joshua pronounced a expletive on the city: "Cursed earlier the Lord exist the homo who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn shall he lay its foundation, and at the price of his youngest son shall he fix its gates" (Joshua 6:26).

Prior to the battle, the Lord had declared Jericho, the commencement city to fall to State of israel's conquest of Canaan, to be wholly dedicated to Him: "The city and all that is in information technology are to be devoted to the Lord. Just Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. But proceed away from the devoted things, and so that y'all will not bring about your ain destruction past taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the military camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. All the silver and aureate and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury" (Joshua 6:17–19). The facts that everything in Jericho belonged to the Lord and that the collapse of the city walls was wholly the Lord's piece of work probably factored into Joshua's alert not to rebuild the city.

Offset Kings sixteen:34 reveals that Joshua's curse did come true during the time of King Ahab: "Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. He laid its foundation at the cost of Abiram his firstborn, and fix its gates at the cost of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun."

Several of import details must be noted. First, Joshua did not promise Jericho would never be rebuilt. Instead, he said the person who rebuilt it would be judged by the loss of his firstborn son and youngest son.

2nd, God confirmed His word through Joshua, taking the lives of Hiel's sons Abiram and Segub. At the showtime of the work (the laying of the foundation), the get-go son died; at the end of the piece of work (the hanging of the gates), the youngest son died. This proved God'southward faithfulness and revealed the consequences of sin that often affect one's family members. Though the sin was Hiel's, the issue included the deaths of 2 sons.

Third, Hiel's rebuilding of Jericho is included as part of a longer passage describing the evil that took identify during Rex Ahab's reign in Israel. Ahab took a pagan, non-Jewish wife named Jezebel and even worshiped her god, Baal. Further, Ahab had a temple of Baal congenital in the uppercase city of Samaria and erected an Asherah pole. The conclusion of this account is that "Ahab did more to provoke the LORD, the God of State of israel, to anger than all the kings of State of israel who were before him" (1 Kings 16:33). During this wicked time, Hiel disregarded Joshua's expletive and rebuilt Jericho.

This moral depression bespeak in Israel's history was too the indicate at which God raised up the prophet Elijah to fight against Baal, revive the hearts of the Israelites, and turn many people back to the Lord. Afterward a three-twelvemonth drought during Ahab'due south reign, Elijah defeated the priests of Baal and helped begin a spiritual revival amidst the Israelites.

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