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Verse Joshua 6:20. _THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, THAT THE
WALL_ _FELL DOWN_] There has been much learned labour spent to prove
that the shouting of the people might be the natural cause tha...
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6. THE FALL OF JERICHO
CHAPTER 6
_ 1. The divine instruction (Joshua 6:1)_
2. The instructions followed (Joshua 6:6)
3. The fall of Jericho (Joshua 6:20)
4. Rahab remembered ...
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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
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FLAT. under itself. Compare Joshua 6:5. Jericho was thrice built, and
thrice destroyed; no that the city of Joshua's time has not yet been
reached by recent excavations. The city, rebuilt by Hiel in A...
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_the wall fell down flat_ No hand of man interposed to bring about
this catastrophe, no merely natural causes precipitated the fall; "_by
faith_," as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews declares,...
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Capture and Destruction of Jericho
6. _And Joshua_ In obedience to the commands thus received Joshua
implicitly carries out the instructions given him and issues the
needful orders to the host....
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DISCOURSE: 248
THE TAKING OF JERICHO
Joshua 6:20. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the
trumpets: and it came to pats, when the people heard the sound of the
trumpet, and the people sho...
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_VER._ 20. _AND—WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET,
AND—SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, THAT THE WALL FELL DOWN FLAT_—
_When therefore the priests blew the trumpets, the people, hearing the
so...
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_The City Destroyed Joshua 6:12-21_
12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the
ark of the Lord
13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams-' horns before the
ark of t...
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_SO THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WHEN THE PRIESTS BLEW WITH THE TRUMPETS: AND IT
CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET, AND THE
PEOPLE SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, THAT THE WALL FELL DOWN...
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THE WALL FELL DOWN FLAT] see note at beginning of chapter. This was
not the first of Israel's sieges. They had already taken the cities of
the Amorites, including Heshbon, which was strongly fortified...
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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 subsequent ca...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 6
V1 The people in Jericho kept their gate...
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וַ יָּ֣רַע הָ עָ֔ם וַֽ יִּתְקְע֖וּ בַּ
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CHAPTER XII.
THE FATE OF JERICHO.
Joshua 6:8.
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 to be su...
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JERICHO TAKEN AND “DEVOTED”
Joshua 6:12
“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 day in full...
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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 impres...
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WHEN GOD BROUGHT DOWN THE WALLS
Joshua 6:1-27
When Joshua met the captain of the host of the Lord in chapter 5, he
asked him, "What does my Lord say to his servant?" He first told
Joshua to take off...
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Pause, Reader, and behold in this instance, the wonderful work of God!
See how the Lord fights for his people! And when you have duly
pondered the history, spiritualize it in the yet far sweeter subje...
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The passing of the Jordan was a wondrous and significant event; but it
was not everything. It sank deep into the consciences of the
Canaanites on all sides; but there was more that was needed, and mor...
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20._So the people shouted, _etc Here the people are praised for
obedience, and the faithfulness of God is, at the same time,
celebrated. They testified their fidelity by shouting, because they
were pe...
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In chapter 6 we find the principles on which the conquests of Israel
are founded. The work is altogether God's. He may indeed exercise His
people in conflict, but it is He who does all. "They went up...
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SO THE PEOPLE SHOUTED WHEN [THE PRIESTS] BLEW WITH THE TRUMPETS,....
As Joshua had charged them, Joshua 6:16;
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE HEARD THE SOUND OF THE TRUMPET,
AND THE PEOPLE SHOU...
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So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and
it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and
the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down...
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1 Iericho is shut vp.
2 God instructeth Ioshua how to besiege it.
12 The citie is compassed.
17 It must be accursed.
20 The walles fall downe.
22 Rahab is saued.
26 The builder of Iericho is cur...
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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 certa...
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FLAT:
_ Heb._ under it...
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17-27 Jericho was to be a solemn and awful sacrifice to the justice
of God, upon those who had filled up the measure of their sins. So He
appoints, from whom, as creatures, they received their lives,...
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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Joshua 6:20 people H5971 shouted H7321 (H8686) blew H8628 (H8799)
trumpets H7782 people H5971 heard H8085 ...
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Joshua 6:20 a ‘So the people shouted when they blew with the
trumpets, and so it was that when the people heard the trumpet-sound,
the people shouted with a great shout.'
Note the concentration on the...
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CONTENTS: Conquest of Jericho.
CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests, Rahab, 2 spies.
CONCLUSION: The victories of faith are often to be won by means, and
upon principles utterly foolish and inadequate i...
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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
wor...
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_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 the p...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:1 Taking the Land. Although the Promised
Land is God’s gift to the Israelites (Joshua 6:2), now that they are
in the land they must conquer it....
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 6:20 SO THE PEOPLE SHOUTED. Hebrews 11:30
commends the people’s faith: they believed the promise of...
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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] These ar...
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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 a state of the...
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So in chapter six we begin the conquering of the land. The method by
which they took Jericho was very fascinating indeed.
The Lord said to Joshua, I have given to you the city of Jericho, and
its king...
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2 Corinthians 10:4; 2 Corinthians 10:5; Hebrews 11:30; Joshua 6:5...