Joshua 6:3

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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 Hiericho autem clausa erat atque munita timore filiorum Israhel et nullus egredi audebat aut ingredi

2 dixitque Dominus ad Iosue ecce dedi in manus tuas Hiericho et regem eius omnesque fortes viros

3 circuite urbem cuncti bellatores semel per diem sic facietis sex diebus

4 septimo autem die sacerdotes tollant septem bucinas quarum usus est in iobeleo et praecedant arcam foederis septiesque circuibitis civitatem et sacerdotes clangent bucinis

5 cumque insonuerit vox tubae longior atque concisior et in auribus vestris increpuerit conclamabit omnis populus vociferatione maxima et muri funditus corruent civitatis ingredienturque singuli per locum contra quem steterint