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Joshua 6:13

The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord , while they continued to blow the trumpets.

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Concordances:

Nave's Topical Bible - Ark; Armies; 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; Rearward; Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Horn; Easton Bible Dictionary - Zechariah; Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of; Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Israel; Jericho; Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Trump Trumpet ; Morrish Bible Dictionary - Horns; Jubilee; Miracles; Rams' Horns; 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); Text of the Old Testament; The Jewish Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;

John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord,.... See Gill on Joshua 6:4,

went on continually; or, "going they went"^F2הלכים הלוך "euntes eundo", Montanus. : kept on going, making no stop at all, until they had compassed the city:

and blew with the trumpets; as they went along:

and the armed men went before them, but the rereward came after the ark of the Lord; which the Targum paraphrases as on Joshua 6:9,

the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets; See Gill on Joshua 6:9.

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Bibliographical Information
Gill, John. "Commentary on Joshua 6:13". "The New John Gill Exposition of the Entire Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/geb/joshua-6.html. 1999.

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Geneva Study Bible

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the ⁱ rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

(i) The tribe of Dan was so called, because it marched last and gathered up whatever was left of others.

Bibliographical Information
Beza, Theodore. "Commentary on Joshua 6:13". "The 1599 Geneva Study Bible". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/gsb/joshua-6.html. 1599-1645.

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John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 6:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

Ver. 13. And seven priests bearing seven trumpets.] Here were many sevens, as also in the Revelation. Many mysteries throughout the Scriptures are set forth by this number: the Hebrew word signifieth fulness.

Bibliographical Information
Trapp, John. "Commentary on Joshua 6:13". John Trapp Complete Commentary. https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/jtc/joshua-6.html. 1865-1868.

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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(13) The priests going on.—Literally, with a going, and a blowing with the trumpets.” The priests” is inserted by the Targum.

Bibliographical Information
Ellicott, Charles John. "Commentary on Joshua 6:13". "Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/ebc/joshua-6.html. 1905.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.

went on: 1 Chronicles 15:26; Matthew 24:13; Galatians 6:9

Reciprocal: Numbers 31:6 - the holy instruments; Joshua 6:6 - Take up the ark; Joshua 6:9 - and the rereward; 2 Kings 5:10 - seven times; 2 Chronicles 13:12 - his priests

Bibliographical Information
Torrey, R. A. "Commentary on Joshua 6:13". "The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge". https://www.studylight.org/commentaries/tsk/joshua-6.html.

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