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

Every verse, and every circumstance contained in a verse, relating to the reduction and overthrow of Jericho, is important and worthy to be attended to, if we view the whole as undoubtedly it ought to be viewed, with a typical reference to our spiritual conquests, through Jesus, over all the enemies of our salvation. Observe how the campaign opens. It is with the movement of the ark. Yes; if Jesus moves forward all his people are to follow: so the church in the wilderness. Exodus 13:21. So the church now, in following the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. Revelation 14:4. Observe also, how the priests are to precede the ark with their trumpets. God's ministers, in all ages of the church, are his heralds, to proclaim the year of the Lord. The jubilee trumpet was certainly a type of the glorious gospel. And do not the servants of Jesus now, sound an alarm in his holy mountain, when they hold up Jesus to the view of the poor sinner, and denounce, as to the men of Jericho, vengeance to the haters of the Lord: but pardon, mercy, and peace, to the lovers of Jesus? Isaiah 27:13.