Joshua 6:4
And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the priests shall sound the trumpets.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3Go round about the city, all ye fighting men, once a day: so shall ye do for six days.
Cross References
Genesis 2:3And he blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
Leviticus 4:6And having dipped his finger in the blood, he shall sprinkle with it seven times before the Lord, before the veil of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 25:8Thou shalt also number to thee seven weeks of years, that is to say, seven times seven, which together make forty-nine years:
Numbers 10:8And the sons of Aaron the priest shall sound the trumpets: and this shall be an ordinance for ever in your generations.
Numbers 23:1And Balaam said to Balac: Build me here seven altars, and prepare as many calves, and the same number of rams.
Judges 7:15And when Gedeon had heard the dream, and the interpretation thereof, he adored: and returned to the camp of Israel, and said: Arise, for the Lord hath delivered the camp of Madian into our hands.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 6:2-6
The Siege of Jericho. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 2 And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times,… Read the whole commentary →