Joshua 6:1
Now Jericho was closely shut up and besieged, and none went out of it, and none came in.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 2:7And the men followed after them in the way to Jordan to the fords; and the gate was shut.
Joshua 2:24And they said to Joshua, The Lord has delivered all the land into our power, and all the inhabitants of that land tremble because of us.
Joshua 18:21And the cities of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-keziz,
2 Kings 2:4And Elijah said to Elisha, Stay here, I pray thee; for the Lord has sent me to Jericho. And he said, As the Lord lives and thy soul lives, I will not leave thee. And they came to Jericho.
Psalms 127:1A Song of Degrees. 1 Blessed are all they that fear the Lord; 1 Who walk in his ways. 1
Matthew Henry on Joshua 6:1
Joshua opened the campaign with the siege of Jericho, a city which could not trust so much to the courage of its people as to act offensively, and to send out its forces to oppose Israel's landing and encamping, but trusted so much to the strength of its walls as to stand upon its defence, and not to surrender, or desire conditions of peace. Now here we have the story of the taking of it, I. The directions and assurances which the captain of the Lord's host gave concerning it, ver. 1-5 . II. The trial of the… Read the whole commentary →