Joshua 6:3

For six days you and all your men at arms must march round the town once a day,

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In The King James Version

And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

In Context

2Then the Lord said to Joshua, “I am putting Jericho into your hands, with its king and all its fighting men.

4with seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns as trumpets in front of the ark. On the seventh day march round the town seven times, and the priests must blow a trumpet blast.

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Cross References

Joshua 6:7Then he told the people, “Forward, march round the town, with the armed men in front of the ark of the Lord.

1 Corinthians 1:21For since the world, in God’s wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the ‘folly’ of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!

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 →

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