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

12The next day Joshua rose early in the morning. The kohanim took up the ark of Adonai, 13and the seven kohanim carrying the seven shofarot of rams’ horns marched in front of the ark of Adonai and blew the shofarot, with the armed force marching before them and the rear guard marching behind the ark of Adonai, while the shofarot continued to blow. So the second day they circled the city once and returned to the camp. So they did for six days. 15Now on the seventh day they rose early, at dawn, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on that day did they march around the city seven times. 16Then on the seventh time, when the kohanim blew the shofarot, Joshua ordered the people, “Shout! For Adonai has given you the city!

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 6:3Now you are to march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once. So you are to do 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

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In the dictionaries

• Accursed
• Adjure
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• Dawn
• Jericho
• Shout
• Ark of the Covenant
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• 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