Study it in the app“The city shall be a thing devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it, to YHWH. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.”
The cityהָעִירshall beוְהָיְתָהa thing devoted to destruction,חֵרֶםitהִיאand allוְכָלthatאֲשֶׁרis in it,בָּהּto YHWH.לַיהוָהOnlyרַקRahabרָחָבthe prostituteהַזּוֹנָהshall live,תִּחְיֶהsheהִיאand allוְכָלwhoאֲשֶׁרare with herאִתָּהּin the house,בַּבַּיִתbecauseכִּיshe hidהֶחְבְּאַתָהthe messengersאֶת הַמַּלְאָכִיםwhomאֲשֶׁרwe sent.שָׁלָחְנוּ
city
A settled place protected by a wall, with a gate and houses.
Where else “ir” appearsbe
To be: "I will be their Elohim".
Where else “hayta” appearsdevoted thing
What was given wholly to God and no one could keep for himself.
Where else “cherem” appearsYHWH
The personal name of the God of Israel, written in Hebrew with four letters, Y-H-W-H, without vowels. Out of reverence Jews stopped pronouncing it and read "Adonai" (Lord), so many Bibles put "the LORD" or "Jehovah". This translation keeps the four letters. The name is related to the verb "to be" (Exodus 3:14-15). He is not a god other than Elohim: "YHWH Elohim" is the same Creator God, called by his name.
Where else “yhva” appearsRahab
Rahab: a woman of Jericho who hid the spies of Israel. Her name means "wide, spacious."
Where else “rachav” appearsprostitute oneself
To give one's body to others outside marriage, often for pay; the woman who does so.
Where else “zona” appearslive
To have breath and remain in this world, not die.
Where else “tichye” appearshouse
A building to live in, or an enclosed place to keep something or someone.
Where else “bayit” appearshide
Hide oneself.
Where else “hechbata” appearsmessenger
Someone sent on an errand.
Where else “malachim” appearssend
To send someone or something.
Where else “shalachnu” appearsTo “devote to destruction” (cherem) was to hand something over completely to God: no one could keep it (Leviticus 27:28-29; Deuteronomy 20:16-18).
16And it came about, at the seventh time, when the priests blew the horns, that Joshua said to the people, “Raise the acclamation! For YHWH has given you the city.
17 · This verse (above)
18But you, only keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, so that you do not devote them to destruction and then take from the things devoted to destruction and make the camp of Israel a thing devoted to destruction and bring ruin on it.
