Joshua 6:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. Now Jericho was straitly shut up - The king of Jericho, finding that the spies had escaped, though the city was always kept shut by night, took the most proper precaution to prevent every thing of the kind in future, by keeping the city shut both day and night, having, no doubt, laid in a sufficiency of provisions to stand a siege, being determined to defend himself to the uttermost.