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Joshua 6:5

JOSHUA—NOTE ON Joshua 6:5 and the wall of the city will fall down flat. Archaeologists have explored the site of Jericho for many years. Many aspects of their findings seemed to fit the biblical description of the city’s destruction, but there are differences of opinion about the age of the ruins. Even so, the various proposed dates for Jericho’s fall are all within the range of possible dates for Israel’s exodus from Egypt and conquest of Canaan (see note on 1 Kings 6:1).

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See also Joshua 6:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 6:5. _THE WALL OF THE CITY SHALL FALL DOWN FLAT_] Several commentators, both Jews and Christians, have supposed that the ground under the foundation of the walls opened, and the wall sun...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    The command of the Lord as to the mode in which the fall of Jericho should be brought about is given in these verses in a condensed form. Further details (see Joshua 6:8, Joshua 6:16, etc.), were, no...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    6. THE FALL OF JERICHO CHAPTER 6 _ 1. The divine instruction (Joshua 6:1)_ 2. The instructions followed (Joshua 6:6) 3. The fall of Jericho (Joshua 6:20) 4. Rahab remembered ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    JOSHUA 5:13 TO JOSHUA 6:27. THE CAPTURE OF JERICHO. The narrative begins at Joshua 5:13; Joshua 6:1 is an insertion (observe that RV places it in brackets), so that

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    FLAT. under it. Probably into the ground. Compare Joshua 11:13.Jeremiah 49:2. See note on Joshua 6:20. EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _ish_ App-14....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _every man straight before him_ Over the prostrate walls the Israelites were to advance into Jericho, and "each one straight forward," so that, as far as possible, their order should be preserved. Com...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 5. _THE WALL OF THE CITY SHALL FALL DOWN FLAT_— The Hebrew literally is, _shall fall under itself._ The LXX render it, _the walls shall fall down of themselves;_ and Onkelos has it, _the wall s...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _Instructions for Attacking Jericho Joshua 6:1-11_ Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have giv...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT WHEN THEY MAKE A LONG BLAST WITH THE RAM'S HORN, AND WHEN YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SHOUT WITH A GREAT SHOUT; AND THE WALL OF THE CITY SHA...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    6:5 blast-horn, (a-15) See Note, Leviticus 25:10 ....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CAPTURE OF JERICH This chapter describes the first and perhaps MOST decisive _action in_ the war. The impression it produced (Joshua 6:27) no doubt did much to decide the fortunes of subsequent ca...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 6 V1 The people in Jericho kept their gate...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָיָ֞ה בִּ מְשֹׁ֣ךְ ׀ בְּ קֶ֣רֶן הַ

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE COMMANDER AND HIS PLAN OF CAMPAIGN Joshua 5:13; Joshua 6:1 When the heart is perfect with God we may count on His presence and help. It is to the separated and obedient servant that the vision of...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    All the preparation being completed, the hosts of God moved forward as the scourge of God in judgment on the corrupt peoples of the land. It is impossible to imagine anything more calculated to impres...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    WHEN GOD BROUGHT DOWN THE WALLS Joshua 6:1-27 When Joshua met the captain of the host of the Lord in chapter 5, he asked him, "What does my Lord say to his servant?" He first told Joshua to take off...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Tune, with certain modulations, continued for a long time, Numbers x. 5. (Haydock) --- Ground. The Rabbins say they sink in, so that the ruins might not impede the march of the army. Some think only...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    This plan of omnipotence so astonishing as it appears to human reason, was evidently intended for the glory of God, and the exercise of the faith of Israel. But as the ark, in this instance as in the...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The passing of the Jordan was a wondrous and significant event; but it was not everything. It sank deep into the consciences of the Canaanites on all sides; but there was more that was needed, and mor...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In chapter 6 we find the principles on which the conquests of Israel are founded. The work is altogether God's. He may indeed exercise His people in conflict, but it is He who does all. "They went up...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS, THAT WHEN THEY MAKE A LONG [BLAST] WITH THE RAM'S HORN,.... Continue blowing, and protracting, and drawing out the sound a long time; which they did only on the seventh day;...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long [blast] with the ram's horn, [and] when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The wall_ Not all of it; which was unnecessary, and might have given the people better opportunity of escaping; but only a considerable part of it, where the Israelites might fitly enter: for Rahab's...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Iericho is shut vp. 2 God instructeth Ioshua how to besiege it. 12 The citie is compassed. 17 It must be accursed. 20 The walles fall downe. 22 Rahab is saued. 26 The builder of Iericho is cur...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and it shall come to pass that, when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, in a long-sustained, single note, AND WHEN YE HEAR THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, ALL THE PEOPLE SHALL SHOUT WITH A GREAT SH...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE SIEGE OF JERICHO...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    JERICHO DESTROYED Joshua and Israel having been fully prepared by God, their conquest of Canaan begins. Jericho, with its thick walls, was securely shut up (v.1), prepared for a long siege; but certa...

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    FLAT: _ Heb._ under it...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-5 Jericho resolves Israel shall not be its master. It shut itself up, being strongly fortified both by art and nature. Thus were they foolish, and their hearts hardened to their destruction; the mi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WHEN THEY MAKE A LONG BLAST, as is usual in the close of musical sounds. THE WALL OF THE CITY; not all of it, which was not only unnecessary, but inconvenient, and might have given the people better o...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 6:5 long H4900 (H8800) rams H3104 horn H7161 hear H8085 (H8800) sound H6963 trumpet H7782 people...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “ And it shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall do...

  • Scofield's Bible Commentary

    AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS The central truth here is that spiritual victories are won by means and upon principles utterly foolish and inadequate in the view of human wisdom. (1 Corinthians 1:17); (2...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Conquest of Jericho. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests, Rahab, 2 spies. CONCLUSION: The victories of faith are often to be won by means, and upon principles utterly foolish and inadequate i...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 6:4. _Seven trumpets of rams' horns._ Josephus uses this term, “rams' horns:” but in most versions it is holy trumpets, or trumpets used in the Jubilee, as seems to be implied by the Hebrew wor...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Now Jericho was straitly shut up._ SHUT UP An old writer says that every carnal heart is a Jericho shut up; God sits down before it and displays mercy and judgment: it hardens itself in a wilful sec...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _THE SIEGE AND FALL OF JERICHO_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 6:1. This verse is merely a parenthesis in the account of the interview, beginning chap. Joshua 5:13, and ending chap. Joshua 6:5. The division...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE VICTORY.— JOSHUA 6:1 This verse (see above) is parenthetical. It explains why the captain of the Lord's host appeared unto Joshua. The inhabitants of Jericho, though in a state of the...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    So in chapter six we begin the conquering of the land. The method by which they took Jericho was very fascinating indeed. The Lord said to Joshua, I have given to you the city of Jericho, and its king...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 17:20; 1 Samuel 17:52; 1 Samuel 4:5; 2 Chronicles 13:14;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    The wall — Not all of it; which was unnecessary, and might have given the people better opportunity of escaping, but only a considerable part of it, where the Israelites might fitly enter: for Rahab's...

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