Joshua 6:1

New Century Version

The people of Jericho were afraid because the Israelites were near. They closed the city gates and guarded them. No one went into the city, and no one came out.

Cross References

2 Samuel 10:5

When the people told David, he sent messengers to meet his officers because they were very ashamed. King David said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back. Then come home.”

2 Kings 17:4

But the king of Assyria found out that Hoshea had made plans against him by sending messengers to So, the king of Egypt. Hoshea had also stopped giving Shalmaneser the payments, which he had paid every year in the past. For that, the king put Hoshea in prison.

2 Kings 2:4

Elijah said to him, “Stay here, Elisha, because the Lord has sent me to Jericho.” But Elisha said, “As the Lord lives, and as you live, I won’t leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

Psalm 127:1

If the Lord doesn’t build the house, the builders are working for nothing. If the Lord doesn’t guard the city, the guards are watching for nothing.

Joshua 16:7

Then it went down from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah. It continued until it touched Jericho and stopped at the Jordan River.

Joshua 18:21

The family groups of Benjamin received these cities: Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,

Joshua 2:1

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent out two spies from Acacia and said to them, “Go and look at the land, particularly at the city of Jericho.” So the men went to Jericho and stayed at the house of a prostitute named Rahab.

Joshua 2:24

They said, “The Lord surely has given us all of the land. All the people in that land are terribly afraid of us.”

Joshua 2:7

So the king’s men went out looking for the spies on the road that leads to the crossings of the Jordan River. The city gate was closed just after the king’s men left the city.

Joshua 5:15

The commander of the Lord’s army answered, “Take off your sandals, because the place where you are standing is holy.” So Joshua did.

Joshua 6:2

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Look, I have given you Jericho, its king, and all its fighting men.