Joshua 6:17 meaning and explanation
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
Joshua 6:17, Berean Standard Bible
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Joshua gives these instructions to Israel just before Jericho falls. The Hebrew verb haram means to devote something wholly to God, which in this war setting meant total destruction with nothing kept as plunder.
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