Joshua 6:12 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. ”

• Joshua 6:12 - 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 Joshua 6:2 should imme...

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• Joshua 6:12 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD.

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• Joshua 6:12 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. Joshua rose early in the morning. The second day's procession seems to have taken place in the morning. In a...

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• Joshua 6:12 - 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 subse...

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• Joshua 6:12 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XII. THE FATE OF JERICHO. Joshua 6:8-27 . 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...

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• Joshua 6:12 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Jericho Taken and “Devoted” Joshua 6:12-21 “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...

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• Joshua 6:12 - 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 impr...

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• Joshua 6:12 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  Rams '-horns were apparently contemptible instruments. Silver trumpets had been used in the temple service. Numbers 10:2 . But is there not a sweet instruction veiled under this? Jesus worketh by ba...

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• Joshua 6:12 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Joshua rose early in the morning ,.... Of the second day; to take care of, direct, and prepare everything for another procession on that day; so active and diligent was he to do the will and wor...

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• Joshua 6:12 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. Ver. 12. And Joshua rose early in the morning. ] A little sleep served his turn: - “ Oυ χρη παννυχιον ευδειν βου...

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• Joshua 6:12 - L. 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 ce...

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• Joshua 6:12 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the L ORD .   7...

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• Joshua 6:12 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 6:12 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the Ark of YHWH, and the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Ark of YHWH went on continually (‘going t...

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• Joshua 6:12 - 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...

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• Joshua 6:12 - 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...

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• Joshua 6:12 - 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 t...

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• Joshua 6:12 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  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...

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• Joshua 6:12 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Siege of Jericho

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• Joshua 6:12 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Chronicles 15:26 ; Galatians 6:9 ; Matthew 24:13

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