Joshua 6 · Verse 18

Joshua 6:18

And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
Joshua 6:18, King James Version

Joshua 6:18 in other translations

BSBBut keep away from the things devoted to destruction, lest you yourself be set apart for destruction. If you take any of these, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster upon it.
WEBBut as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
ASVBut as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when ye have devoted it, ye take of the devoted thing; so would ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
YLTand surely ye have kept from the devoted thing, lest ye devote yourselves, and have taken from the devoted thing, and have made the camp of Israel become a devoted thing, and have troubled it;
DARBYBut in any wise keep from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed in taking of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
BBEAnd as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.
WebsterAnd ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

What does Joshua 6:18 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 6:17-19

17-19. And the city shall be accursed--(See on Le 27:28). The cherem, or "anathema," was a devotion to utter destruction (De 7:2; 20:17; 1Sa 15:3). When such a ban was pronounced against a hostile city, the men and animals were killed--no booty was allowed to be taken. The idols and all the precious ornaments on them were to be burned (De 7:25; compare 1Ch 14:12). Everything was either to be destroyed or consecrated…

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 6:17-27

Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice of God, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He appoints, from whom, as creatures, they received their lives, and to whom, as sinners, they had forfeited them. Rahab perished not with them that believed not, He 11:31. All her kindred were saved with her; thus faith in Christ brings salvation to the house, Ac 16:31. She, and they with…

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Joshua 6:18 in the original Hebrew

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וְרַק\־ve.rak-and onlyH7535
אַתֶּם֙'a.TemyouH859
שִׁמְר֣וּshim.RukeepH8104
מִן\־min-fromH4480
הַחֵ֔רֶםha.Che.remthe devoted thing[s]H2764
פֶּֽן\־pen-lestH6435
תַּחֲרִ֖ימוּta.cha.Ri.muyou should totally destroyH2763
וּלְקַחְתֶּ֣םu.le.kach.Temand you will takeH3947
מִן\־min-any ofH4480
הַחֵ֑רֶםha.Che.remthe devoted thing[s]H2764
וְשַׂמְתֶּ֞םve.sam.Temand you will makeH7760
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
מַחֲנֵ֤הma.cha.Neh[the] camp ofH4264
יִשְׂרָאֵל֙Yis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
לְחֵ֔רֶםle.Che.reminto a devoted thingH2764
וַעֲכַרְתֶּ֖םva.'a.khar.Temand you will troubleH5916
אוֹתֽוֹ\׃'o.To<obj.> itH853

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Joshua 6:18

  • 1 John 5:21

    Little children, keep yourselves from idols. Amen.

  • Ephesians 5:11

    And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

  • Joshua 7:11-12

    Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

  • Joshua 7:1

    But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.

  • Joshua 7:25

    And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

  • 2 Corinthians 6:17

    Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

  • Romans 12:9

    Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

  • James 1:27

    Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

  • Ecclesiastes 9:18

    Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

  • Jonah 1:12

    And he said unto them, Take me up, and cast me forth into the sea; so shall the sea be calm unto you: for I know that for my sake this great tempest is upon you.

  • 1 Kings 18:17-18

    And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father’s house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the Lord, and thou hast followed Baalim.

  • 1 Samuel 14:28-42

    Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint. Then said Jonathan, My father hath troubled the land: see, I pray you, how mine eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of this honey. How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines? And they smote the Philistines that day from Michmash to Aijalon: and the people were very faint. …

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in any wise.
Ro 12:9; 2Co 6:17; Eph 5:11; Jas 1:27; 1Jo 5:21
lest ye make.
7:1,11,12,15; De 7:26; 13:17
make the camp.
7:11,12; 22:18-20; 1Sa 14:28-42; Ec 9:18; Jon 1:12
and trouble it.
7:25; 2Sa 21:1; 1Ki 18:17,18

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Context

  • Joshua 6:17

    And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

  • Joshua 6:18

    And ye, in any wise keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

  • Joshua 6:19

    But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the Lord: they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.

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Joshua 6:18 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Empero guardaos vosotros del anatema, que ni toquéis, ni toméis alguna cosa del anatema, porque no hagáis anatema el campo de Israel, y lo turbéis.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Seulement vous vous garderez de l’anathème, de peur qu’en prenant de l’anathème, vous ne vous rendiez vous-mêmes anathème, et que vous ne fassiez devenir anathème le camp d’Israël, et que vous ne le troubliez.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Ihr aber, hütet euch nur vor dem Verbannten, damit ihr nicht verbannet und doch von dem Verbannten nehmet und das Lager Israels zum Banne machet und es in Trübsal bringet.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Vos autem cavete ne de his, quæ præcepta sunt, quippiam contingatis, et sitis prævaricationis rei, et omnia castra Israël sub peccato sint atque turbentur.