Joshua 6:14

Joshua 6:14 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
• New International Version (NIV)So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
• English Standard Version (ESV)And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.
• New King James Version (NKJV)And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.

Context of Joshua 6:14

12Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord. 13The seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord marched along blowing their horns. Armed troops marched ahead of them, while the rear guard followed along behind the ark of the Lord blowing rams’ horns. They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all. 15On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before – only this time they marched around it seven times. 16The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams’ horns and Joshua told the army, “Give the battle cry, for the Lord is handing the city over to you!

Joshua 6:14 word by word

וַיָּסֹ֨בּוּ אֶת־הָעִ֜יר בַּיּ֤וֹם הַשֵּׁנִי֙ פַּ֣עַם אַחַ֔ת וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֑ה כֹּ֥ה עָשׂ֖וּ שֵׁ֥שֶׁת יָמִֽים׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And the secondשֵׁנִיshênîy · secondH8145
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• they compassedסָבַבsâbab · to turn: surroundH5437
• the cityעִיר‛îyr ‛âr ‛âyar · cityH5892
• onceאֶחָד'echâd · oneH259
• onceפַּ֫עַםpa‛am pa‛ămâh · beatH6471
• and returnedשׁוּבshûb · to return: returnH7725
• into the campמַחֲנֶהmachăneh · campH4264
• so they didעָשָׂה‛âώâh · to make: doH6213
• sixשֵׁשׁshêsh shishshâh · sixH8337

Cross-references for Joshua 6:14

• Joshua 6:3Have all the warriors march around the city one time; do this for six days.

Commentaries on Joshua 6:14

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 14So 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…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-16Verses 6-16 Wherever the ark went, the people attended it. God's ministers, by the trumpet of the everlasting gospel, which proclaims liberty and victory, must encourage the followers of Christ in their spiritual warfare. As promised deliverances must be expected in God's way, so they must be expected in his time. At last the people were to shout: they did so, and the walls fell. This was a shout of faith; they believed the walls of Jericho would fall. It…Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 12-1412-14. Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord--The second day's procession seems to have taken place in the morning. In all other respects, down even to the smallest details, the arrangements of the first day continued to be the rule followed on the other six.Read the comment

Topics related to Joshua 6:14

• Ark
• Trumpet

In the dictionaries

• Accursed
• Adjure
• Compass
• Consecrate
• Dawn
• Jericho
• Shout
• Ark of the Covenant
• Exodus, the Book of
• Horn

Commentaries on Joshua 6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings