Teks -- Hebrews 11:30 (NET)

11:30 By faith the walls of Jericho fell after the people marched around them for seven days.

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Robertson: Heb 11:30 - Fell down

Fell down ( epesan ).

"Fell,"second aorist active indicative of piptō with first aorist endings as often in the Koiné.

Robertson: Heb 11:30 - After they had been compassed

After they had been compassed ( kuklōthenta ).

First aorist passive participle of kukloō , old verb to encircle (from kuklos , circle) as in Act 14:20. Antecedent action here.

Vincent: Heb 11:30 - Compassed about

Compassed about ( κυκλωθέντα )

Comp. Luk 21:20; Joh 10:24. o P.

Wesley: Heb 11:30

By the faith of Joshua.

JFB: Heb 11:30

The soundings of trumpets, though one were to sound for ten thousand years, cannot throw down walls, but faith can do all things [CHRYSOSTOM].

JFB: Heb 11:30 - seven days

Whereas sieges often lasted for years.

Clarke: Heb 11:30 - The walls of Jericho fell down

The walls of Jericho fell down - This is particularly explained Jos 6:1, etc. God had promised that the walls of Jericho should fall down, if they compassed them about seven days. They believed, did as they were commanded, and the promise was fulfilled.

Calvin: Heb 11:30 - NO PHRASE

30.=== By faith the walls of Jericho fell, === etc. As he had before taught us, that the yoke of bondage was by faith broken asunder, so now he tells us, that by the same faith the people gained the possession of the promised land. For at their first entrance the city Jericho stood in their way; it being fortified and almost impregnable, it impeded any farther progress, and they had no means to assail it. The Lord commanded all the men­of­war to go round it once every day, and on the seventh day seven times. It appeared to be a work childish and ridiculous; and yet they obeyed the divine command; nor did they do so in vain, for success according to the promise followed. It is evident, that the walls did not fall through the shout of men, or the sound of trumpets; but because the people believed that the Lord would do what he had promised.

We may also apply this event to our benefit and instruction: for it is not otherwise, than by faith, that we can be freed from the tyranny of the Devil, and be brought to liberty; and by the same faith, it is that we can put to flight our enemies, and that all the strongholds of hell can be demolished.

TSK: Heb 11:30

Josh. 6:3-20; 2Co 10:4, 2Co 10:5

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Poole: Heb 11:30

This Divine faith, exercised by Joshua and Israel after their entrance into the Land of Promise, (who did, on God’ s word and command, compass the impregnable walls of Jericho once every day for six days together, and on the seventh day seven times, sounding with trumpets of rams’ horns, and at last giving a shout), brought down these walls flat to the ground by the almiglity power of God, to whom they were as nothing, Jos 6:20 . Faith in all this realized God’ s promise to them, reached forth their love to him, and obedience in all particulars required by him, glorifying God, as the great Captain of their hosts, as he revealed himself, Jos 5:13-15 ; committing the work and event to him, who, by the breath of faith, doth crumble down these walls before them.

PBC: Heb 11:30

Faith and the Miraculous {Heb 11:30-35}a

A miracle is " an exception to and reversal of natural law." Old Testament saints trusted in a God with whom nothing was impossible, and periodically, he rewarded their faith with unexpected displays of His power.

Why does the writer appeal to demonstrations of supernatural power? Because Christianity, like Judaism, is a faith rooted in the miraculous (e. g. virgin birth, resurrection, etc.). The God in whom we believe is able to do that which is humanly impossible.

For example, after dividing the Red Sea so that the children of Israel could cross on dry ground, He drowned Pharoah and his 600 chosen chariots in the depths. {Heb 11:29} Furthermore, he demolished the apparantly impregnable walls of Jericho so that Joshua and the Israelites conquered the city. {Heb 11:30} The one exception, however, was the house of the harlot Rahab. Compare Jos 2:15 with Jos 6:20,22. The entire wall fell down flat, except that portion on which the house of Rahab was situated. {Heb 11:31}

The entire Old Testament testifies to the exploits of God in the lives of the faithful, like Gideon, David, Samuel, and Daniel. {Heb 11:32} These people did the impossible. {Heb 11:33-34} Some, like the Great Woman of Shunem, {2Ki 4:1-44} even witnessed the miracle of God’s resurrection power, receiving their dead back to life again {Heb 11:35}a.

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Haydock: Heb 11:30

The following examples are clear enough, if we look into the history and particular actions of those here named. It was a faith in God's mercies and promises that gave them courage, resolution, and perseverance amidst all dangers and difficulties, against all afflictions and persecutions, that made them despise the short happiness of this mortal life, in hopes of an immortal happiness hereafter. Yet they who are so much commended and approved for their faith, received not the great promise of entering into the kingdom of heaven; and they who lived and died well, were indeed in a place of rest, but their souls were not admitted to the beatifical vision, to see and enjoy God in heaven, till our blessed Saviour [Jesus Christ], at his ascension, entered first, and opened as it were heaven's gates for others to enter. In this God provided something better for us, who, after his coming, if we die without sin, and without any temporal punishments due to sin, our souls are presently happy with God in heaven. (Witham)

Gill: Heb 11:30 - By faith the walls of Jericho fell down

By faith the walls of Jericho fell down,.... Of themselves, not from any natural cause: the Jews say ⁿ they sunk right down into the ground, and were swallowed up; even the whole wall fell round about, as the Septuagint version in Jos 6:20 expresses it: or, it may be, only that which was over against the camp of Israel, as Kimchi observes; since Rahab's house was built upon the wall, and yet fell not. And this was by the faith of Joshua, and the Israelites, who believed the walls would fall, at the sound of the rams' horns, as God said they should: after they were compassed about seven days; which was a trial of their faith and patience: the Jews say ^o it was on the sabbath day that they fell: this was a preternatural act, and cannot be ascribed to any second cause; nothing is impossible with God; no defences, ever so strong, are anything against him; unlikely means are sometimes made use of by him; faith stops at nothing, when it has the word of God to rest upon; and what God does, be does in his own time, and in his own way. This may be an emblem of the fall of the walls of the hearts of unregenerate men; of their unbelief, hardness, enmity, and vain confidence; and of the conversion and subjection of them unto Christ, through the preaching of the Gospel; which, in the eyes of men, is as mean and despicable, and as unlikely to bring about such an event, as the sounding of the rams' horns might be to the inhabitants of Jericho: and it may be also an emblem of the fall of Babylon, and other antichristian cities, Rev 16:19.