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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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THE SEVENTH TIME. Compare Hebrews 11:30....
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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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_VER._ 16. _AND—AT THE SEVENTH TIME—JOSHUA SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE,
SHOUT,_ &C.— This shouting might be made in a two-fold view. It
might be designed to terrify the enemy, and to animate at the same
time...
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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 AT THE SEVENTH TIME, WHEN THE PRIESTS BLEW WITH
THE TRUMPETS, JOSHUA SAID UNTO THE PEOPLE, SHOUT; FOR THE LORD HATH
GIVEN YOU THE CITY._
It came to pass at the seventh time. This...
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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 יְהִי֙ בַּ † פַּ֣עַם הַ
שְּׁבִיעִ֔ית...
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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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CHAPTER VI.
_ Said, or "had said," when he gave the people the sound of the
trumpet for a sign (Haydock) when they were to shout, ver. 5. He
probably gave the regulations respecting the plunder of th...
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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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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 AT THE SEVENTH TIME,.... Of their going round the
city on the seventh day: and at the seventh time,
WHEN THE PRIESTS BLEW WITH THE TRUMPETS; as they did every time they
compassed...
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And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with
the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath
given you the city.
Ver. 16. _Shout._] To show your faith, to e...
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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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And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with
the trumpets, or, the priests had sounded the blast on the trumpets,
for the description in the Hebrew is more vivid than in the
tra...
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RAHAB SAVED AT THE OVERTHROW OF JERICHO...
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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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SHOUT, to testify your faith in God's promise, and thankfulness for
this glorious mercy, and to encourage yourselves and brethren, and to
strike a terror into your enemies....
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Joshua 6:16 seventh H7637 time H6471 priests H3548 blew H8628 (H8804)
trumpets H7782 Joshua H3091 said H559 ...
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‘ And so it was at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the
trumpets, that Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for YHWH has given
you the city.” '
This was possibly the long blast of verse 5....
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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 Chronicles 13:15; 2 Chronicles 20:22; 2 Chronicles 20:23; Joshua
6:5;...
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Shout — To testify your faith in God's promise, and thankfulness for
this glorious mercy; to encourage yourselves and brethren, and to
strike a terror into your enemies. Given you the city — It is giv...