Joshua 6:1
Now Jericho had shut its gates against the Israelites. No one left the town, and no one entered it.
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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 2:7The pursuers went by the road to the Jordan, as far as the fords, and as soon as they left the town the gate was shut.
Joshua 2:24They said to Joshua, “The Lord has put all the country into our hands. Everyone who lives in this land is trembling before us!”
Joshua 18:21Their towns were Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
Psalms 127:1Unless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman wakes in vain.
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 →