So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
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So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
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So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
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So he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once; and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain For that day.
For that day.
Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.
John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jos 6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed…
Jos 6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Ver. 11. So the ark of the Lord compassed the city.] The inhabitants marvelling, doubtless, what they meant by their tracing and circuiting.
John Trapp, A Commentary or Exposition upon All the Books of the Old and New Testament (1647–1656) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain So the ark of the Lord compassed the city,....…
So the ark of the Lord compassed the city,.... Being bore by the priests, who carried it round the city; it may as well be rendered and interpreted as it is by Kimchi,"he, i.e. Joshua, caused the ark of the Lord to compass the city;''
that is, he gave orders to the priests to take it up, and go round with it on the first day:
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going about it once; on that day, and no more; keeping at such a distance, as to be out of the reach of stones or arrows cast from the walls of the city:
and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp; the night following; not only the priests that bare the ark, but those that blew with the trumpets, and all the armed men, and the people.
John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible (1746–1763) — public domain (CC PDM 1.0). Text via the HelloAO Bible API.
Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain There. This singular procession served to exercise the obedience…
There. This singular procession served to exercise the obedience of the people, and to teach them to despise the enemy, who durst not come out to attack them, though many were unarmed. (Calmet)
George Leo Haydock (1774–1849), Haydock's Catholic Family Bible and Commentary, 1859 edition — public domain. Excludes Psalms (Douay-Rheims chapter numbering differs from Protestant) and Deuterocanonical books (Catholic canon only).
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 11. and they came into the camp] On the…
11. and they came into the camp] On the evening of the first day and the six succeeding days they returned to their encampment at Gilgal to spend the night.
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges (gen. ed. J. J. S. Perowne; Cambridge University Press, 1878–1918) — public domain. Text from a community e-Sword module.