Hebrews 11:30

Mace New Testament

by faith they made the tour of Jericho for seven days, in consequence of which the walls fell down.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being marched around by the Israelites for seven days.

King James Version (1611)
By faith the walles of Iericho fell downe, after they were compassed about seuen dayes.

King James Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

English Standard Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

New American Standard Bible
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days.

New Century Version
It was by faith that the walls of Jericho fell after the people had marched around them for seven days.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

Legacy Standard Bible
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

Berean Standard Bible
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.

Contemporary English Version
God's people had faith, and when they had walked around the city of Jericho for seven days, its walls fell down.

Complete Jewish Bible
By trusting, the walls of Yericho fell down — after the people had marched around them for seven days.

Darby Translation
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.

Easy-to-Read Version
And the walls of Jericho fell because of the faith of God's people. They marched around the walls for seven days, and then the walls fell.

Geneva Bible (1587)
By faith the walles of Iericho fell downe after they were copassed about seue dayes.

George Lamsa Translation
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were being encompassed seven days.

Good News Translation
It was faith that made the walls of Jericho fall down after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days.

Lexham English Bible
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been marched around for seven days.

Literal Translation
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been circled during seven days.

Amplified Bible
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days [by Joshua and the sons of Israel].

American Standard Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

Bible in Basic English
By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.

Hebrew Names Version
By faith, the walls of Yericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

International Standard Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.Joshua 6:20;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
By faith the ramparts of Jirichu fell down, after they had been encompassed seven days.

Murdock Translation
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, when they had been encompassed seven days.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
By fayth, the walles of Iericho fell downe, after they were compassed about seuen dayes.

English Revised Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

World English Bible
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
By faith the walls of Jericho, having been compassed seven days, fell down.

Weymouth's New Testament
Through faith the walls of Jericho fell to the ground after being surrounded for seven days.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Bi feith the wallis of Jerico felden doun, bi cumpassyng of seuene daies.

Update Bible Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.

Webster's Bible Translation
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encompassed seven days.

New English Translation
By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

New King James Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.

New Living Translation
It was by faith that the people of Israel marched around Jericho for seven days, and the walls came crashing down.

New Life Bible
Because the Jews had faith, the walls of the city of Jericho fell down after the Jews had walked around the city for seven days.

New Revised Standard
By faith the walls of Jericho fell after they had been encircled for seven days.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
By faith, the walls of Jericho, fell, having been surrounded for seven days.

Douay-Rheims Bible
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.

Revised Standard Version
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
By fayth the walles of Ierico fell doune after they were copased about seven dayes.

Young's Literal Translation
by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
By faith the walles of Iericho fell, wha they were compased aboute seuen dayes.

THE MESSAGE
By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.

Simplified Cowboy Version
It was by a heapin' of faith that the cowboys and cowgirls rode around Jericho for a week and then the walls of the town crumbled.

Contextual Overview

⁴ 'Twas by faith that Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he was declared righteous, God himself having testified that he accepted his offering, and after he died for his faith, he was not silent. ⁵ By faith Enoch was translated that he might avoid dying; and he could not be found, because God had translated him: for 'tis recorded, that before his translation he was approved by God. ⁶ now without faith it is impossible to be acceptable to him: for he that presents himself to God, cannot but believe he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who make their addresses to him. ⁷ 'Twas by faith that Noah being divinely warned of unforeseen events, with a religious concern built an ark to the preservation of his family; whereby the world became inexcusable, and he obtained the reward of that righteousness which is by faith. ⁸ 'Twas by faith that he who was named Abraham, showed his obedience in travelling to a foreign country, which he was afterwards to inherit; and began his journey without knowing where he was going. ⁹ 'twas by faith that he sojourned in a land that was promised, as in a strange country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and Jacob, who were equally entitled to the same promise. ¹⁰ for he had in view the city, whose foundations are sure, the architect and founder being God. ¹¹ 'Twas likewise through faith that Sara, though barren, received the power of becoming pregnant, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. ¹² so that even a single person whose vigour was gone, gave rise to a posterity as numerous as the stars of the sky, or the sands on the sea-shore, which cannot be numbred. ¹³ These all died in faith, without receiving what was promised, having only a distant view of what they eagerly expected, professing to live as strangers and pilgrims in the land.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 6:3-20, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 3:5 - General Joshua 6:5 - and the wall Joshua 6:20 - the wall Isaiah 25:12 - the fortress

Cross-References

Luke 1:7
they had no children, because Elizabeth was steril, and they were both advanced in years.

Luke 1:36
even your cousin Elizabeth, as old as she is, is become pregnant with a son: she, who was stiled barren, is now in her sixth month;

Gill's Notes on the Bible

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down,.... Of themselves, not from any natural cause: the Jews say n they sunk right down into the ground, and were swallowed up; even the whole wall fell round about, as the Septuagint version in Joshua 6:20 expresses it: or, it may be, only that which was over against the camp of Israel, as Kimchi observes; since Rahab's house was built upon the wall, and yet fell not. And this was by the faith of Joshua, and the Israelites, who believed the walls would fall, at the sound of the rams' horns, as God said they should: after they were compassed about seven days; which was a trial of their faith and patience: the Jews say o it was on the sabbath day that they fell: this was a preternatural act, and cannot be ascribed to any second cause; nothing is impossible with God; no defences, ever so strong, are anything against him; unlikely means are sometimes made use of by him; faith stops at nothing, when it has the word of God to rest upon; and what God does, be does in his own time, and in his own way. This may be an emblem of the fall of the walls of the hearts of unregenerate men; of their unbelief, hardness, enmity, and vain confidence; and of the conversion and subjection of them unto Christ, through the preaching of the Gospel; which, in the eyes of men, is as mean and despicable, and as unlikely to bring about such an event, as the sounding of the rams' horns might be to the inhabitants of Jericho: and it may be also an emblem of the fall of Babylon, and other antichristian cities, Revelation 16:19.

n Targum Jon. Jarchi & Kimchi in Josh. vi. 5. o Jarchi & Kimchi in ver. 15.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down ... - Josephus, Hebrews 6:12-20. That is, it was not by any natural causes, or by any means that were in themselves adapted to secure such a result. It was not because they fell of themselves; nor because they were assailed by the hosts of the Israelites; nor was it because there was any natural tendency in the blowing of horns to cause them to fall. None of these things were true; and it was only by confidence in God that means so little adapted to such a purpose could have been employed at all; and it was only by continued faith in him that they could have been persevered in day by day, when no impression whatever was made. The strength of the faith evinced on this occasion appears from such circumstances as these: - that there was no natural tendency in the means used to produce the effect; that there was great apparent improbability that the effect would follow; that they might be exposed to much ridicule from those within the city for attempting to demolish their strong walls in this manner, and from the fact that the city was encircled day after day without producing any result.

This may teach us the propriety and necessity of faith in similar circumstances. Ministers of the gospel often preach where there seems to be as little prospect of beating down the opposition in the human heart by the message which they deliver, as there was of demolishing the walls of Jericho by the blowing of rams’ horns. they blow the gospel trumpet from week to week and month to month, and there seems to be no tendency in the strong citadel of the heart to yield. Perhaps the only apparent result is to excite ridicule and scorn. Yet let them not despair. Let them blow on. Let them still lift up their voice with faith in God, and in due time the walls of the citadel will totter and fall. God has power over the human heart as he had over Jericho; and in our darkest day of discouragement let us remember that we are never in circumstances indicating less probability of success from any apparent tendency in the means used to accomplish the result, than those were who encompassed this pagan city. With similar confidence in God we may hope for similar success.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 30. The walls of Jericho fell down — This is particularly explained Joshua 6:1, &c. God had promised that the walls of Jericho should fall down, if they compassed them about seven days. They believed, did as they were commanded, and the promise was fulfilled.