Joshua 6:4 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

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

• Joshua 6:4 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The command of the Lord as to the mode in which the fall of Jericho should be brought about is given in these verses in a condensed form. Further details (see Joshua 6:8-10 , Joshua 6:16-17 , etc...

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• Joshua 6:4 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  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 c...

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• Joshua 6:4 - 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 6:4 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  rams' horns . trumpets of Jubilee, of long sound. Exodus 19:13 . the seventh day . on the seventh day.

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• Joshua 6:4 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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

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• Joshua 6:4 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 4. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns — Some have observed, that rams' horns cannot be bored, and made so as to give any thing of a strong sound; and...

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• Joshua 6:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

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• Joshua 6:4 - 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 6:4 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  Seven trumpets of rams’ horns. — Literally, trumpets of jubilee — i.e., of loud or joyful sound.

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• Joshua 6:4 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Commander and His Plan of Campaign Joshua 5:13-15 ; Joshua 6:1-11 When the heart is perfect with God we may count on His presence and help. It is to the separated and obedient servant that...

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• Joshua 6:4 - 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 6:4 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  This plan of omnipotence so astonishing as it appears to human reason, was evidently intended for the glory of God, and the exercise of the faith of Israel. But as the ark, in this instance as in the...

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• Joshua 6:4 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns ,.... The ark was to be taken up and carried by priests round the city. Ben Gersom observes, that this was to direct the Isr...

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• Joshua 6:4 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. Ver. 4. Seven tru...

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• Joshua 6:4 - 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 6:4 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Siege of Jericho. B. C. 1451.       1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the chil...

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• Joshua 6:4 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Of rams horns, or, of the jubilees , i.e. such trumpets wherewith they were to sound in the years of jubilee, Leviticus 25:9 . Either this, or one of the other six, was certainly a sabbath day;...

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• Joshua 6:4 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “ And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Ark, and the seventh day you shall surround the city seven times, and the priests will blow with the trumpets.” Seven was t...

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• Joshua 6:4 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  THE SIEGE AND FALL OF JERICHO CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 6:1 . This verse is merely a parenthesis in the account of the interview, beginning chap. Joshua 5:13 , and ending chap. Joshua 6:5 . Th...

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• Joshua 6:4 - 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 6:4 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Now Jericho was straitly shut up. Shut up An old writer says that every carnal heart is a Jericho shut up; God sits down before it and displays mercy and judgment: it hardens itself in a wilful...

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• Joshua 6:4 - 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 6:4 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Siege of Jericho

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• Joshua 6:4 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 18:43 ; 2 Chronicles 13:12 ; 2 Chronicles 20:17 ; 2 Chronicles 20:19 ; 2 Chronicles 20:21 ; 2 Kings 5:10 ; Genesis 2:3 ; Genesis 7:2 ; Genesis 7:3 ; Isaiah 27:12 ; Job 42:8 ; Judg...

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