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Brenton's Septuagint

Joshua 6:14

And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Ark;   Trumpet;   Thompson Chain Reference - Bible Stories for Children;   Children;   Delayed Blessings;   Home;   Miracles;   Pleasant Sunday Afternoons;   Religion;   Stories for Children;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Ark of the Covenant;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;   Sieges;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Zechariah;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel;   Jericho;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Miracles;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Jericho;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ark;   Chief parables and miracles in the bible;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Urim and Thummim;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Palestine (Recent Exploration, I.e. as of 1915);   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
Hebrew Names Version
The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
King James Version
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Lexham English Bible
And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
English Standard Version
And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.
New Century Version
So on the second day they marched around the city one time and then went back to camp. They did this every day for six days.
New English Translation
They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.
Amplified Bible
On the second day they marched around the city once, and returned to the camp; they did this for six days.
New American Standard Bible
So the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did the same for six days.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the host: thus they did sixe dayes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.
Complete Jewish Bible
The second day, they went around the city once and returned to camp. They did the same for six days.
Darby Translation
And on the second day they went round the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
Easy-to-Read Version
On the second day, they all marched around the city one time. And then they went back to the camp. They continued to do this every day for six days.
George Lamsa Translation
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned to the camp; so they did for six days.
Good News Translation
On this second day they again marched around the city one time and then returned to camp. They did this for six days.
Literal Translation
And they circled the city on the second day one time, and returned to the camp. So they did six days.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The seconde daye wente they once aboute the cite also, and came agayne into the hoost. Thus dyd they sixe dayes.
American Standard Version
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Bible in Basic English
The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the seconde daye they passed the citie once, and returned againe into the hoast: and so they dyd sixe dayes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp; so they did six days.
King James Version (1611)
And the second day they compassed the citie once, and returned into the campe: so they did sixe dayes.
English Revised Version
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Berean Standard Bible
So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And thei cumpassiden the citee in the secunde dai onys, and turneden ayen in to the castels; so thei dyden in sixe daies.
Young's Literal Translation
And they compass the city on the second day once, and turn back to the camp; thus they have done six days.
Update Bible Version
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Webster's Bible Translation
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
World English Bible
The second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
New King James Version
And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.
New Living Translation
On the second day they again marched around the town once and returned to the camp. They followed this pattern for six days.
New Life Bible
The second day they walked around the city once. Then they returned to the tents. They did this for six days.
New Revised Standard
On the second day they marched around the city once and then returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So they compassed the city on the second day once, and returned into the camp, - thus, did they, six days.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And they went round about the city the second day once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.
Revised Standard Version
And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did for six days.
THE MESSAGE
On the second day they again circled the city once and returned to camp. They did this six days.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.

Contextual Overview

6 And Joshua the son of Naue went in to the priests, and spoke to them, saying, 7 And let seven priests having seven sacred trumpets proceed thus before the Lord, and let them sound loudly; and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow. 8 Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let your men of war pass on armed before the Lord. 9 And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord proceed sounding the trumpets. 10 And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any one hear your voice, until he himself declare to you the time to cry out, and then ye shall cry out. 11 And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there. 12 And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord. 13 And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. 14 And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days. 15 And on the seventh day they rose up early, and compassed the city on that day seven times.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 6:3, Joshua 6:11, Joshua 6:15

Reciprocal: Exodus 29:30 - seven days

Cross-References

Exodus 2:3
And when they could no longer hide him, his mother took for him an ark, and besmeared it with bitumen, and cast the child into it, and put it in the ooze by the river.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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, Joshua 5:10;

so they did six days: four more after these two successively, and proceeded in the same order and manner as on those two days.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 6:14. 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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