Joshua 6:13

13 And the seven priests carrying the seven blast-trumpets before the ark of Jehovah went on and blew continually with the trumpets; and the armed men went before them, and the rearguard went after the ark of Jehovah; they blew with the trumpets in marching.

Joshua 6:13 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 6:13

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns
before the ark of the Lord (See Gill on Joshua 6:4);

went on continually;
or, "going they went" ^F2: kept on going, making no stop at all, until they had compassed the city:

and blew with the trumpets;
as they went along:

and the armed men went before them, but the rereward came after the ark
of the Lord;
which the Targum paraphrases as on ( Joshua 6:9 ) ;

[the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets;
(See Gill on Joshua 6:9).

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FOOTNOTES:

F2 (Kwlh Myklh) "euntes eundo", Montanus.

Joshua 6:13 In-Context

11 And the ark of Jehovah went round the city, encompassing [it] once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests carried the ark of Jehovah.

13 And the seven priests carrying the seven blast-trumpets before the ark of Jehovah went on and blew continually with the trumpets; and the armed men went before them, and the rearguard went after the ark of Jehovah; they blew with the trumpets in marching.

14 And on the second day they went round the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.

15 And it was so that on the seventh day they rose early, about the morning-dawn, and went round the city after the same manner seven times; only on that day they went round the city seven times.

Footnotes

• [a]. See Note, Lev. 25.10.