The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 6:21
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city. For a discussion of the difficulties arising from this fulfilment of a stern decree, see Introduction. HOMILETICS read more
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Joseph Benson
Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 6:21
Joshua 6:21. Young and old Being commanded to do so by the sovereign Lord of every man’s life; and being informed by God before that the Canaanites were abominably wicked, and deserved the severest punishments. As for the infants, they were at the disposal of their Creator; and it was a great favour to them to take them away in their infancy, rather than reserve them to those dreadful calamities to which those who survived them were exposed. read more
Donald C. Fleming
Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 6:1-27
Click image for full-size version6:1-12:24 CONQUEST OF THE LANDDestruction of the CanaanitesThe following chapters show that the Israelites’ conquest of Canaan was well planned. First they won control of the central region (Chapters 6-9). This created a division between the northern and southern regions, and so prevented Canaanite tribes throughout the country from joining forces. Israel then had a much easier task in conquering the rest of Canaan, first the south (Chapter 10), then the north... read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 6:20
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 Ahab's reign (822-790 B.C.) was captured by the Herodians (3 B.C.) and rebuilt by Archelaus (A.D. 2). This was the Jericho of our Lord's day, which was destroyed by Vespasian, 7 A.D. read more
E.W. Bullinger
E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 6:21
destroyed devoted to destruction Figure of speech Ellipsis ( App-6 ), to be thus supplied. with the edge = according to the mouth. "Mouth" by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6 = without quarter. read more
Thomas Coke
Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 6:20
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 sound thereof, shouted with a great shout, and the walls, &c. Houb. The miraculous nature of this event is so palpable, that one cannot conceive how it could come into the minds of any to contest it, or even to endeavour to assign natural reasons for it. The horrid art of war was in its infancy at the... read more
Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joshua 6:20
20, 21. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets—Towards the close of the seventh circuit, the signal was given by Joshua, and on the Israelites' raising their loud war cry, the walls fell down, doubtless burying multitudes of the inhabitants in the ruins, while the besiegers, rushing in, consigned everything animate and inanimate to indiscriminate destruction (Deuteronomy 20:16; Deuteronomy 20:17). Jewish writers mention it as an immemorial tradition that the city fell on... read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 6:13-27
1. The conquest of Jericho 5:13-6:27 read more
Thomas Constable
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Joshua 6:15-21
The warriors and priests were to remain silent as they circled the city each time except the last. God evidently used this strategy to impress on the people of Jericho, as well as the Israelites, that the deliverance was not by human might or power. It was by the Spirit of the Lord (cf. Zechariah 4:6). He commanded the final shout on the seventh day to announce His destruction of the wall. It was a shout of victory and joy for the Israelites."To emphasize the divine intervention, no secondary... read more
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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 6:20
Delusive trust. "The wall fell down fiat." A strong city besieged; yet no trenches opened, no batteries erected against it, no engines of assault employed. Armed men in two divisions, separated by the ark and priests who precede it, compass the city once a day in silence, save for the sound of the horns blown by the seven priests. After six days the marching commences early in the morning, and the circuit is completed seven times, when the priests blow a long peculiar blast, the whole host... read more