Joshua 6:1

CHAPTER VI

The inhabitants of Jericho close their gates, 1.

Continuation of the discourse between the captain of the Lord's

host and Joshua. He commands the people to march round the city

six days, the seven priests blowing with their trumpets; and to

give a general shout, while marching round it on the seventh,

and promises that then the walls of the city shall fall down,

2-5.

Joshua delivers these directions to the priests and to the

people, 6, 7.

The priests and people obey; the order of their procession,

8-16.

He commands them to spare the house of Rahab, 17,

and not to touch any part of the property of the city, the whole

of which God had devoted to destruction, 18, 19.

On the seventh day the walls fall down, and the Israelites take

the city, 20, 21.

The spies are ordered to take care of Rahab and her family-the

city is burnt, but the silver, gold, brass, and iron, are put

into the treasury of the house of the Lord, 22-24.

Rahab dwells among the Israelites, 25;

and the city is laid under a curse, 26.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI

Verse Joshua 6:1. Now Jericho was straitly shut up] The king of Jericho, finding that the spies had escaped, though the city was always kept shut by night, took the most proper precaution to prevent every thing of the kind in future, by keeping the city shut both day and night, having, no doubt, laid in a sufficiency of provisions to stand a siege, being determined to defend himself to the uttermost.