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THE MESSAGE
Hebrews 11:30
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By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after being marched around by the Israelites for seven days.
By faith the walles of Iericho fell downe, after they were compassed about seuen dayes.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days.
It was by faith that the walls of Jericho fell after the people had marched around them for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
God's people had faith, and when they had walked around the city of Jericho for seven days, its walls fell down.
By trusting, the walls of Yericho fell down — after the people had marched around them for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, having been encircled for seven days.
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.
By faith the walles of Iericho fell downe after they were copassed about seue dayes.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were being encompassed seven days.
It was faith that made the walls of Jericho fall down after the Israelites had marched around them for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been marched around for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, having been circled during seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days [by Joshua and the sons of Israel].
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.
By faith, the walls of Yericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.Joshua 6:20;">[xr]
By faith the ramparts of Jirichu fell down, after they had been encompassed seven days.
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, when they had been encompassed seven days.
By fayth, the walles of Iericho fell downe, after they were compassed about seuen dayes.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.
By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been encircled for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho, having been compassed seven days, fell down.
Through faith the walls of Jericho fell to the ground after being surrounded for seven days.
Bi feith the wallis of Jerico felden doun, bi cumpassyng of seuene daies.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they had been compassed about for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encompassed seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were encircled for seven days.
It was by faith that the people of Israel marched around Jericho for seven days, and the walls came crashing down.
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.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell after they had been encircled for seven days.
By faith, the walls of Jericho, fell, having been surrounded for seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
By fayth the walles of Ierico fell doune after they were copased about seven dayes.
by faith the walls of Jericho did fall, having been surrounded for seven days;
By faith the walles of Iericho fell, wha they were compased aboute seuen dayes.
by faith they made the tour of Jericho for seven days, in consequence of which the walls fell down.
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
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
At one time, the whole Earth spoke the same language. It so happened that as they moved out of the east, they came upon a plain in the land of Shinar and settled down.
They said to one another, "Come, let's make bricks and fire them well." They used brick for stone and tar for mortar.
When Arphaxad was thirty-five years old, he had Shelah. After Arphaxad had Shelah, he lived 403 more years and had other sons and daughters.
Isaac prayed hard to God for his wife because she was barren. God answered his prayer and Rebekah became pregnant. But the children tumbled and kicked inside her so much that she said, "If this is the way it's going to be, why go on living?" She went to God to find out what was going on. God told her, Two nations are in your womb, two peoples butting heads while still in your body. One people will overpower the other, and the older will serve the younger.
When God realized that Leah was unloved, he opened her womb. But Rachel was barren. Leah became pregnant and had a son. She named him Reuben (Look-It's-a-Boy!). "This is a sign," she said, "that God has seen my misery; and a sign that now my husband will love me."
At that time there was a man named Manoah from Zorah from the tribe of Dan. His wife was barren and childless. The angel of God appeared to her and told her, "I know that you are barren and childless, but you're going to become pregnant and bear a son. But take much care: Drink no wine or beer; eat nothing ritually unclean. You are, in fact, pregnant right now, carrying a son. No razor will touch his head—the boy will be God's Nazirite from the moment of his birth. He will launch the deliverance from Philistine oppression."
"And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." And Mary said, Yes, I see it all now: I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say. Then the angel left her.
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.
