Joshua 6:27

So the Lord was with Joshua He and He alone had achieved the victory for His people, and they had "stood still" and "seen the salvation of Jehovah" (Exodus 14:13; 2 Chronicles 20:17):

(a) The entrance into Canaan itself had been effected by the miraculous receding of the waters of the Jordan;

(b) The walls of the city had fallen down flat, not before Israel, but before the Ark of Jehovah, Whose presence was ever connected with its golden Mercy-Seat;

(c) When it had been bestowed upon the people as a free gift, without any effort on their part, all that it contained was devoted entirelyto the Lord, nothing in the way of gainwas to be made out of it;

(d) The means they had been allowed to employ as preliminary to the capture were such as could not fail to make them a scorn and derision to the proud warriors of the Doomed City, and so called into exercise, in a striking degree, their faith, patience, and obedience.