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Joshua 6:14

On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for 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

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.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
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.
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

6So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets in front of the ark of the Lord.” 7He said to the troops, “Move forward, march around the city, and have the armed men go ahead of the ark of the Lord.” 8After Joshua had spoken to the troops, seven priests carrying seven trumpets before the Lord moved forward and blew the trumpets; the ark of the Lord’s covenant followed them. 9While the trumpets were blowing, the armed men went in front of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard went behind the ark. 10But Joshua had commanded the troops: “Do not shout or let your voice be heard. Don’t let one word come out of your mouth until the time I say, ‘Shout!’ Then you are to shout.” 11So the ark of the Lord was carried around the city, circling it once. They returned to the camp and spent the night there. 12Joshua got up early the next morning. The priests took the ark of the Lord, 13and the seven priests carrying seven trumpets marched in front of the ark of the Lord. While the trumpets were blowing, the armed men went in front of them, and the rear guard went behind the ark of the Lord. 14On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.15Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city 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
But when she could no longer hide him, she got a papyrus basket for him and coated it with asphalt and pitch. She placed the child in it and set it among the reeds by the bank of the Nile.
Matthew 24:38
For in those days before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day Noah boarded the ark.
Luke 17:27
People went on eating, drinking, marrying and giving in marriage
1 Peter 3:20
who in the past were disobedient, when God patiently waited in the days of Noah while the ark was being prepared. In it a few—that is, eight people—were saved through water.

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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