Joshua 6:3

3 You shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days.

Joshua 6:3 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 6:3

And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war
Joshua their chief commander under the Lord, and all that were able to make war, even all above twenty years of age; these were to compass the city, not in the form of a siege, but by a procession around it:

[and] go round about the city once;
or one time, for the first once in a day, and no more:

thus shall thou do six days;
one after another; that is, go round it, once every day, for such a time. This order was given, according to the Jews ^F23, the twenty second of Nisan, after the feast of unleavened bread was over.

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FOOTNOTES:

F23 Seder Olam Rabba, c. 11. p. 31.

Joshua 6:3 In-Context

1 Now Yericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Yisra'el: none went out, and none came in.

2 The LORD said to Yehoshua, Behold, I have given into your hand Yericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men of valor.

3 You shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days.

4 Seven Kohanim shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the Kohanim shall blow the trumpets.

5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the shofar, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him.