Joshua 6:3

ye shall compass the city The scene to be witnessed from the walls of Jericho, was calculated in the most striking manner to appeal to the consciences of all who should see it:

(a) First in solemn procession were to advance armed men:

(b) Then would follow seven priests blowing continually, not the customary silver trumpets, but large horns:

(c) Thus heralded, was to follow the Ark of Jehovah borne by the priests:

(d) Then were to follow "the rereward" of Israel.

Six days was this strange procession to encompass the walls of Jericho, passing round in solemn silence, save for the long-drawn blasts of the horns. But on the seventh day, the city was to be encompassed seven times, and at the seventh the people were to shout, and it was promised that the city should "fall down flat," and its destruction would be complete. "The ark of God, with the tables of stone from Sinai hidden within, was the genius, I had almost said the general, of that mysterious march: it was made plain by every token, that God, not man, was at work. Their priests were officiating, with the emblems of festival, not of warfare "the trumpets of jubilee" in their hands; before them armed hosts heralding, behind them armed hosts attending, the progress of the true Champion, the representative of the God of battles, to whose presence alone the coming victory was to be due." Dr Vaughan's Heroes of Faith, p. 253.