SEV Biblia, Chapter 6:21
Y destruyeron todo lo que había en la ciudad; hombres y mujeres, mozos y viejos, hasta los bueyes, y ovejas, y asnos, a filo de espada.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 6:21
Verse 21. They utterly destroyed-both man, and woman, &c.] As this act was ordered by God himself, who is the Maker and Judge of all men, it must be right: for the Judge of all the earth cannot do wrong. Nothing that breathed was permitted to live; hence the oxen, sheep, and asses, were destroyed, as well as the inhabitants.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 21. And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city , etc.] All the inhabitants of it, by the direction of Joshua, and according to the order of the Lord, ( Deuteronomy 7:1,2); being guilty of capital crimes, which deserved death, as idolatry, incest, etc. both men and women, young and old ; neither sex nor age were spared: and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword ; in which creatures chiefly lay the substance of the eastern people; (see Job 1:3).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 17-27 - Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice of God upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He appoints from whom, as creatures, they received their lives, and to whom, a sinners, they had forfeited them. Rahab perished not with them tha believed not, Heb 11:31. All her kindred were saved with her; thu faith in Christ brings salvation to the house, Ac 16:31. She, and the with her, were plucked as brands from the burning. With Rahab, or with the men of Jericho; our portion must be assigned, as we posses of disregard the sign of salvation; even faith in Christ, which worketh by love. Let us remember what depends upon our choice, and let us choos accordingly. God shows the weight of a Divine curse; where it rest there is no getting from under it; for it brings ruin without remedy __________________________________________________________________
Original Hebrew
ויחרימו 2763 את 853 כל 3605 אשׁר 834 בעיר 5892 מאישׁ 376 ועד 5704 אשׁה 802 מנער 5288 ועד 5704 זקן 2205 ועד 5704 שׁור 7794 ושׂה 7716 וחמור 2543 לפי 6310 חרב׃ 2719
