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JOSHUA COMMANDED THE PRIESTS AND MEN OF WAR
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26
Joshua 6:6-27
Psalm 26:1-8
“…I have trusted also in the LORD;
therefore I shall not slide.”
JOSHUA COMMANDED THE PRIESTS AND MEN OF WAR
Joshua commanded the priests to take up the Ark of the Covenant and seven priests to bear the trumpets of rams’ horns. The people were to pass on and compass the city. All armed men were to pass before the Ark of the Covenant. They were to do this for six days and return to the camp.
Meanwhile, the city of Jericho was shut so that none went in or came out. As that march continued for six days, one can only imagine what went on inside the city. They would have expected disaster any day. Rahab must have gathered her family in her house and made prominent the scarlet thread that the spies had given her as a token of their vow. The rest of the people must have been resigned to whatever would befall them. Those who thought they could put up a resistance might have been watching on top of the wall or in the watch-towers. They might still have put their hope in their strong walls and ability to fight back. Nevertheless, it is certain that the whole population were demoralised and were expecting the worst to happen.
Israel continued the daily routine and the people of Jericho endured that mental torture. There was no mention of what their king did at that time. The mental torture continued all that time inside the walls of Jericho. Israel also did not know how the events would turn out, but they trusted God to fulfil what He had promised: to deliver Jericho into their hands.
The first claim of the land of Canaan was at hand. On the seventh day, the priests and men of war compassed the city seven times, blowing the trumpets as they went. On the seventh time, they were to shout as the priests blew the trumpets. At that shout, the walls of Jericho would fall. Joshua 6:20 describes the outcome: “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat…” God fulfilled His promise as He rendered the fortification of Jericho to nothing.
THOUGHT: “Faith is the victory that overcomes the world.”
PRAYER: Father, Thou art the Victor in all battles!