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Verse Joshua 6:15. _THE SEVENTH DAY - THEY ROSE EARLY_] Because on
this day they had to encompass the city seven times; a proof that the
city could not have been very _extensive_, else this going roun...
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ON THE SEVENTH DAY - Most probably a Sabbath day. The rising early
would be necessary to give time for encompassing the city seven times.
Jericho appears to have been a city of considerable size and
p...
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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 ...
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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
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Capture and Destruction of Jericho
6. _And Joshua_ In obedience to the commands thus received Joshua
implicitly carries out the instructions given him and issues the
needful orders to the host....
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_about the dawning of the day_ On this day the circuit had to be made
seven times, and therefore the march had to be commenced very early....
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_VER._ 13-15. _AND SEVEN PRIESTS,_ &C.— Whether Jericho was taken on
a sabbath-day, as the Jews pretend, or on another day of the week, it
is very certain, that the procession was made on the sabbath...
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_The City Destroyed Joshua 6:12-21_
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the
ark of the Lord
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams-' horns before the
ark of t...
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH DAY, THAT THEY ROSE EARLY ABOUT
THE DAWNING OF THE DAY, AND COMPASSED_ _ AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE
SEVENTH DAY, THAT THEY ROSE EARLY ABOUT THE DAWNING OF THE DAY,...
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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...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 6
V1 The people in Jericho kept their gate...
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וַ יְהִ֣י ׀ בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ
שְּׁבִיעִ֗י...
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CHAPTER XII.
THE FATE OF JERICHO.
Joshua 6:8.
THE instructions of Joshua to the priests and the people are promptly
obeyed. In the bright rays of the morning sun, on the day when Jericho
is to be su...
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JERICHO TAKEN AND “DEVOTED”
Joshua 6:12
“By faith the walls of Jericho fell down,” Hebrews 11:30. Whose
faith? To some extent it was the faith of the people, who marched
round them day by day in full...
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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...
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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...
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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the
dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner (k)
seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven...
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_Seventh day. The Jews say it was the sabbath; but of this there is no
proof. Marcion hence took occasion to accuse God of inconsistency, as
he forbad all working, and yet ordered the people to go rou...
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Probably this was the Lord's day; one of the seven clays must have
been so; and as this was the glorious day of victory, it is more than
probable that this might have been the very day. No doubt the w...
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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...
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15._And it came to pass on the seventh day, _etc Here, also, God
seemed, by leading the people so often round the city, not only to
keep the matter in suspense, but purposely to sport with the miserie...
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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...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS ON THE SEVENTH DAY,.... Which Jarchi says was the
Sabbath day, and which is a common notion of the Jews c; but whether
it was or not, it is certain that one of these seven days mus...
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And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the
dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven
times: only on that day they compassed the city seven time...
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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...
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RAHAB SAVED AT THE OVERTHROW OF JERICHO...
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And it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early about the
dawning of the day, when the first indications of the new day were
visible in the east, AND COMPASSED THE CITY AFTER THE SAME MANN...
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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...
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6-16 Wherever the ark went, the people attended it. God's ministers,
by the trumpet of the everlasting gospel, which proclaims liberty and
victory, must encourage the followers of Christ in their spi...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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‘ And so it was on the seventh day, that they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and went round the city in the same way seven
times, only on that day they went round the city seven times.'
This wa...
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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...
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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...
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_The wall fell down flat._
THE FIGHT OF FAITH
Of uninspired poems, perhaps the most widely read are those which
celebrate a siege--the siege of Troy. Homer and Virgil have sung in
noble numbers the p...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:1 Taking the Land. Although the Promised
Land is God’s gift to the Israelites (Joshua 6:2), now that they are
in the land they must conquer it....
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 6:8. Before the Lord] The Ark is now taken as the symbol of the
Divine presence, just as the Pillar of Cloud had been formerly.
JOSHUA 6:9. THE ARMED MEN WENT BEFORE] These ar...
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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...
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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...
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2 Peter 1:19; Joshua 6:4; Matthew 28:1; Psalms 119:147...