Accursed - Better, as in the margin, ('devoted' (see the note on Leviticus 27:28)). In other cases, only the inhabitants of the towns were k…

The city shall be accursed. — Hebrew, shall be chêrem, “a devoted or accursed thing”; and so in Joshua 6:18, from the…

And the city shall be accursed, etc. Although God had determined not only to enrich his people with spoil and plunder, but also to settle …

And the city shall be accursed
Or, be a "cherem", devoted to the Lord, as it follows:

Jericho was to be a solemn and dreadful sacrifice to God's justice, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So God decreed, from wh…