Joshua 6:20-21 NLT,NIV,ESV

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 6:15-27

Rahab Saved at the Overthrow of Jericho v. 15. And it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early about the dawning of the day, when the first indications of the new day were visible in the east, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times; only on that day they compassed the city seven times, the greater part of the day, probably till near sundown, being occupied with this marching. v. 16. And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 6:1-27

SECTION SECONDThe Contests of Israel with the CanaanitesJoshua 6-11A. Contests against particular citiesJoshua 6-8______________1. The Capture of JerichoJoshua 6:0a. Preparation for the CaptureJoshua 6:1-141Now Jericho was straitly shut up [lit. had shut up (her gates) and was shut up], because of the children [sons] of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2And the Lord [Jehovah] said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and [omit: and] the mighty... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Joshua 6:12-21

Jericho Taken and “Devoted” Joshua 6:12-21 “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 assurance that God would not fail. But Joshua and Caleb pre-eminently were deeply concerned in the wonderful result. See Mark 11:23-24 . To the citizens the action of the Israelite invaders must have appeared incomprehensible and even ludicrous. What do these feeble folk ? But God’s people... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 6:1-27

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 impress on these hosts their own absolute weakness than the method of their first victory. Those marching hosts and those blatant horns were patently utterly inadequate to the work of capturing a city, and by the standards of all ordinary human methods of warfare they were the instruments of... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:20

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 noise made. The trumpets sound and the people shout. ‘The trumpet-sound’ is literally ‘the sound of the trumpet’, the singular drawing attention to the sound rather than the trumpets. This was the long blast of Joshua 6:5. Now the city would recognise that the moment had come for them to put up... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:21

‘ And they devoted (utterly destroyed as an offering to YHWH) all that was in the city, both men and women, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.’ Warfare is ever a dreadful business. Even practically speaking they dared not leave men alive in their rear who could attack them from behind when they went on. And to leave the women and children alone and undefended would have been unacceptable. death would be seen as preferable. But here Jericho was the... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:1-27

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 Joshua 6:2 should immediately follow Joshua 5:15. The captain of Yahweh’ s host is therefore Yahweh Himself. In the rest of the chapter we have a composite narrative, so skilfully compiled that at first sight there is not much fault to find. Closer inspection, however, shows that there are two signals for the fall of the walls—... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 6:21

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 guilty of original sin, and otherwise at the disposal of their Creator, as the clay is in the hands of the potter; but if they had been wholly innocent, it was a great favour to them to take them away in infancy, rather than reserve them to those dreadful calamities which those who... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 6:20

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 are thought to have been the chosen men of the two and a half tribes. “The chalutz, or ‘selected troops,’ went before the Ark, and the measseph, or ‘massed troops,’ followed the Ark.” [Crosby.] MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Joshua 6:6-16; Joshua 6:20THE FALL OF JERICHOIn looking at the general... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 6:21-25

CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 6:23. And left them without the camp] Till they had undergone ceremonial purification they would be regarded as unclean, and, as such, they were forbidden to come where the Lord dwelt (cf. Numbers 5:2-3). MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.—Joshua 6:21-25THE DESTRUCTION OF THE CANAANITESIn slaying all the inhabitants of Jericho, with the exception of Rahab and her kindred, it cannot be too distinctly borne in mind that the Israelites were fulfilling the will and obeying the... read more

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 6:15-27

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 6:1-27

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Joshua 6:12-21

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 6:1-27

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:20

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:21

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 6:1-27

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 6:21

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 6:20

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 6:21-25

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