Joshua 6:20-21

KJV ²⁰ So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. ²¹ And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

 

The New Jerusalem Bible

 

Joshua 6:20-21

 

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20 They were ready to go to war but they had no idea what the Lord would do. The wall inwards onto the people in the city, their own protection God used to be their undoing, this wall prevented people from coming in and as long as they were in that wall they thought they were fine but God had their wall fall down on them, we often times build up our own walls, God can knock them down so that we can come to His will. God gave them to city.

 

21 This seems cruel to do away with everyone of the city both young and old but it is what the Lord wanted from them. God’s judgment was to fall on everyone. God’s judgment may seem cruel but God is just and them listening to the Lord was not cruel but was justice, those that were rebellious were brought to God’s wrath because unlike Rehab they did not seek out God’s grace, those that do not seek out His grace will face His wrath.