Joshua 6:17-18

The Fall of Jericho

¹⁷ And the city and all that is within it shall be _n devoted to the Lord for destruction. ₁ Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall live, because she _o hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸ But you, keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted them you take any of the devoted things and make the camp of Israel _p a thing for destruction and _q bring trouble upon it.

1. Cross References
   Leviticus 27:28
   But no devoted thing that a man devotes to the Lord, of anything that he has, whether man or beast, or of his inherited field, shall be sold or redeemed; every devoted thing is most holy to the Lord.
   Deuteronomy 20:17
   But you shall devote them to complete destruction, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites and the Perizzites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, as the Lord your God has commanded.
   
2. Cross References
   Joshua 2:4
   But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. And she said, "True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.
   
3. Cross References
   Joshua 7:12
   Therefore the people of Israel cannot stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will be with you no more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.
   
4. Cross References
   Joshua 7:25
   And Joshua said, "Why did you bring trouble on us? The Lord brings trouble on you today." And all Israel stoned him with stones. They burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
   1 Chronicles 2:7
   The son of Carmi: Achan, the troubler of Israel, who broke faith in the matter of the devoted thing.