When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Yericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
Joshua 6:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Now Yericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Yisra'el: none went out, and none came in. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition NOW JERICHO [a fenced town with high walls] was tightly closed because of the Israelites; no one went out or came in. American Standard Version (1901) Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. Common English Bible Now Jericho was closed up tightly because of the Israelites. No one went out or came in. Catholic Public Domain Version Now Jericho was closed as well as fortified, out of fear of the sons of Israel, and no one dared to depart or to enter. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in. |
When they told it to David, he sent to meet them; for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, Wait at Yericho until your beards be grown, and then return.
The king of Ashur found conspiracy in Hoshea; for he had sent messengers to So king of Egypt, and offered no tribute to the king of Ashur, as he had done year by year: therefore the king of Ashur shut him up, and bound him in prison.
Eliyahu said to him, Elisha, please wait here, for the LORD has sent me to Yericho. He said, As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they came to Yericho.
and it went down from Yano`ach to `Atrot, and to Na`arah, and reached to Yericho, and went out at the Yarden.
Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Binyamin according to their families were Yericho, and Beit-Choglah, and Emek-Ketzitz,
Yehoshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Yericho. They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rachav, and lay there.
They said to Yehoshua, Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.
The men pursued after them the way to the Yarden to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
The prince of the LORD's army said to Yehoshua, Put off your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. Yehoshua did so.
The LORD said to Yehoshua, Behold, I have given into your hand Yericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men of valor.