Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 6:14
And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Verse 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.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical 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, Jos 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.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
‘ And the second day they surrounded the city once, and returned to the camp. So they did six days.’
This was the second day, and what was done on this day and on the first day was done also for the next four days. The Ark of YHWH, borne by the priests, went round the city. The seven priests blowing the rams’ horns went before it. And the armed men led the way and the people followed at the tail.
Fuente: Commentary Series on the Bible by Peter Pett
What, perhaps, at the first view and on the first day, when the people marched round Jericho, most seriously alarmed the men of Jericho in their entrenchments; probably by the time that six days had passed, began now to excite security, and even laughter. Alas! the sinner is never so near his ruin, as, when he becomes hardened in his iniquity. When men say peace, then, sudden destruction cometh upon them. 1Th 5:2-3 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jos 6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Ver. 14. And the second day. ] See Jos 6:3 ; Jos 6:11 .
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Jos 6:3, Jos 6:11, Jos 6:15
Reciprocal: Exo 29:30 – seven days