Joshua 6:14 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. ”

Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. So they did six days - It is not likely that the whole Israelitish host went each day round the city...
Joshua 6:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 13-15. And seven priests, &c.— Whether Jericho was taken on a sabbath-day, as the Jews pretend, or on another day of the week, it is very certain, that the procession was made on the s...
Joshua 6:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What, perhaps, at the first view and on the first day, when the people marched round Jericho, most seriously alarmed the men of Jericho in their entrenchments; probably by the time that six days had...
Joshua 6:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the second day they compassed the city once ,.... Went round it one time only; as on the first: and returned into the camp : which was at Gilgal, Joshua 5:10 ; so they did six days : four m...
Joshua 6:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. Ver. 14. And the second day. ] See Joshua 6:3 ; Joshua 6:11 .
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Joshua 6:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And the second day they surrounded the city once, and returned to the camp. So they did six days.' This was the second day, and what was done on this day and on the first day was done also for...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - 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...
Joshua 6:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Siege of Jericho
Joshua 6:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 6:11 ; Joshua 6:15 ; Joshua 6:3

Joshua 6:14 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 6:14 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 6:14 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 6:14 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 6:14 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 6:14 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 6:14 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 6:14 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 6:14 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 6:14 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 6:14 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 6:14 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 6:14 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge