Then Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD.” And he said to the people, “Proceed, and march around the city, and let him who is armed advance before the ark of the LORD.”Ī. (6-7) Joshua tells the priests and the people. Obviously, it was something that God could have done without Israel’s help at all, but He wanted them to be a part of His work – as He wants us to be a part of His work today. Yet God gave them something to do, so that Israel could work in partnership with God. And the people shall go up every man straight before him: It was a plan for victory whereby it would clearly be the work of the LORD. The wall of the city will fall down flat. It required great faith from the elders and the nation, because they had to follow Joshua in this plan.Ĭ.

It required great faith from Joshua because he had to explain and lead the nation in this plan. You shall march around the city: The method of warfare was one that made absolutely no sense according to military intelligence. Again, we see the wisdom of God as opposed to human wisdom, in that Israel faces their most difficult opponent first.ī. If Israel could defeat Jericho, they could defeat anything else that would face them in Canaan. Jericho was not an exceptionally large city but it was an important, formidable fortress city. The Canaanites must be dispossessed if Israel is to occupy what God has promised them. Now the real task before them must be faced and tackled. Up to this point everything had been more or less preliminary and preparatory. Yet from God’s perspective, the battle was already over, because He can say to Joshua I have (in the past tense) given Jericho into your hand. Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel: Jericho itself was on full alert from a human perspective, this would be a hard, if not impossible, battle. And the people shall go up every man straight before him.”Ī. It shall come to pass, when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great shout then the wall of the city will fall down flat. But the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. You shall march around the city, all you men of war you shall go all around the city once. And the LORD said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand, its king, and the mighty men of valor. Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel none went out, and none came in. Obedience before the fall of the city of Jericho.

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