3And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
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But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
Only rebel not ye against the LORD, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the LORD is with us: fear them not.
For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. …
And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-5)We have here a contest between God and the men of Jericho, and their different resolutions, upon which it is easy to say whose word shall prevail. I. Jericho resolves Israel shall not be its master, Josh. 6:1. It was straitly shut up, because of the children of Israel . It did shut up, and it was shut up (so it is in the margin); it did shut up itself, being strongly fortified both by art and natu…
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