Hebrews 11:30

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.

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.

Mace New Testament (1729)
by faith they made the tour of Jericho for seven days, in consequence of which the walls fell down.

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

Contextual Overview

⁴It was Abel's heapin' of faith that helped him bring a sacrifice to God that was worthy of what it was supposed to be. Cain's was not. Abel's sacrifice showed his faith in God and God showed his approval. Even though Abel has long been in the grave, his example still speaks. ⁵It was because Enoch had a heapin' of faith that he was taken up to heaven without dying. Before he left, he had a reputation as being someone God admired. ⁶You can't please the Boss without a heapin' of faith, because in order to knock on his door you must believe that he's there and he surely gives favors to those who know where to look and who to ask. ⁷It was by a heapin' of faith that Noah built him a big boat for his family to ride out the storm that wiped everyone else out. It was as simple as listening to God and doing what he said—even though no one had even heard of such a thing happening before. Noah's faith was the dividing line between who was saved and who was lost. ⁸It was by a heapin' of faith that Abraham saddled up and rode off to new country like God told him to. God said there was a great inheritance waitin' on him. He rode off without a clue as to where he was going. ⁹Even when he rode in to the new country, he lived there purely by faith in their cowboy teepees. Same goes for his kids, Isaac and Jake. They received the same promise their daddy had. ¹⁰But what ol' Abe was really waiting on was a city with foundations that would last forever built by God's own hands. ¹¹It was by a heapin' of faith that Abe's wife Sarah was able to have a kid. She was way too long in the tooth and she was dry to boot. A child had to come from God and she believed that God keeps his word. ¹²A whole new nation came from one old cowboy with one foot in the grave. This new people, God's own people, numbered more than the rocks in the rivers and the stars in the sky. You couldn't have counted them any easier than counting every blade of grass in a hundred years' worth of hay bales. ¹³All of them died, but they died with God's promise of a better life on their lips. They didn't get it in their lifetime, but they got to see it and it made them glad. They knew they were just day hands on this earth and that their home was in the next life.

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 were both timeworn, and Elizabeth had never gotten pregnant despite her and her husband's many prayers.

Luke 1:36
And here's some more good news, your cousin Elizabeth is going to have a baby in about three months. I know she's old, but this just goes to show you God can and will do whatever he wants with whoever he wants.

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.