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Joshua 6:20

flat. under itself. Compare Joshua 6:5. Jericho was thrice built, and thrice destroyed; no that the city of Joshua's time has not yet been reached by recent excavations. The city, rebuilt by Hiel in Ahab's reign (822-790 B.C.) was captured by the Herodians (3 B.C.) and rebuilt by Archelaus (A.D. 2). This was the Jericho of our Lord's day, which was destroyed by Vespasian,. A.D.

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See also Joshua 6:20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 6:20. _THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, THAT THE WALL_ _FELL DOWN_] There has been much learned labour spent to prove that the shouting of the people might be the natural cause tha...

  • 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

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the wall fell down flat_ No hand of man interposed to bring about this catastrophe, no merely natural causes precipitated the fall; "_by faith_," as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews declares,...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 248 THE TAKING OF JERICHO Joshua 6:20. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pats, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people sho...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 20. _AND—WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, AND—SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, THAT THE WALL FELL DOWN FLAT_— _When therefore the priests blew the trumpets, the people, hearing the so...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _SO THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WHEN THE PRIESTS BLEW WITH THE TRUMPETS: AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, THAT THE WALL FELL DOWN...

  • 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...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE WALL FELL DOWN FLAT] see note at beginning of chapter. This was not the first of Israel's sieges. They had already taken the cities of the Amorites, including Heshbon, which was strongly fortified...

  • 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

    וַ יָּ֣רַע הָ עָ֔ם וַֽ יִּתְקְע֖וּ בַּ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • 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...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Pause, Reader, and behold in this instance, the wonderful work of God! See how the Lord fights for his people! And when you have duly pondered the history, spiritualize it in the yet far sweeter subje...

  • 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 Calvin's Bible Commentary

    20._So the people shouted, _etc Here the people are praised for obedience, and the faithfulness of God is, at the same time, celebrated. They testified their fidelity by shouting, because they were pe...

  • 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

    SO THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WHEN [THE PRIESTS] BLEW WITH THE TRUMPETS,.... As Joshua had charged them, Joshua 6:16; AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, AND THE PEOPLE SHOU...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down...

  • 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

    So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets, at the long blast after the seventh trip around the city on this last day. AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TR...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    RAHAB SAVED AT THE OVERTHROW 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

    17-27 Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice of God, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He appoints, from whom, as creatures, they received their lives,...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 6:20 people H5971 shouted H7321 (H8686) blew H8628 (H8799) trumpets H7782 people H5971 heard H8085 ...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    Joshua 6:20 a ‘So the people shouted when they blew with the trumpets, and so it was that when the people heard the trumpet-sound, the people shouted with a great shout.' Note the concentration on the...

  • 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

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:20 SO THE PEOPLE SHOUTED. Hebrews 11:30 commends the people’s faith: they believed the promise of...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • 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

    2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 11:30; Joshua 6:5...

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