The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
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The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
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And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
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And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp; so they did six days.
Cross-references (3)
Passages linked to Joshua 6:14 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 6:3 All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
- Joshua 6:11 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.
- Joshua 6:15 On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jos 6:14 And the second day they compassed the…
Jos 6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Ver. 14. And the second day.] See Jos 6:3; Jos 6:11.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain And the second day they compassed the city once,....…
And the second day they compassed the city once,.... Went round it one time only; as on the first:
and returned into the camp: which was at Gilgal, Jos 5:10,
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so they did six days: four more after these two successively, and proceeded in the same order and manner as on those two days.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 14. So they did six days.] It is…
Verse 14. So they did six days.] It is not likely that the whole Israelitish host went each day round the city. This would have been utterly impossible: the fighting men alone amounted to nearly 600,000, independently of the people, who must have amounted at least to two or three millions; we may therefore safely assert that only a select number, such as was deemed necessary for the occasion, were employed. Jericho could not have been a large city: and to reduce it could not have required a hundredth part of the armed force under the command of Joshua.
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