Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her.
"It is remarkable that the ban against Jericho (as indicated in Joshua's curse against the city) was observed for four centuries afterward, until Hiel of Bethel broke it, and the curse was fulfilled in him (1 Kings 16:34)."[33]  "The laying of the foundation was marked by the death of his oldest son, and the death of his youngest followed the completion of the city."[34]  This is a warning, as Matthew Henry stated it, that, "It is always dangerous to build up what God wishes to be destroyed."[35]