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Geneva Study Bible Commentary

Joshua 6:4

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of (e) rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

(e) That the conquest might not be assigned to man's power, but to the mercy of God, which with most weak things can overcome that which seems most strong.

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