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, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
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Gill's Exposition
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets,.... As Joshua had charged them, Jos 6:16,
and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet,
and the people shouted…
Adam Clarke
The people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down - There has been much learned labor spent to prove that the shouting of the people might be the natural cause that the wall fell down! To…
The people had religiously observed the orders given them concerning the besieging of Jericho, and now at length Joshua had told them (Jos 6:16), "The Lord hath given you the city, enter and take…
Cambridge Bible
the wall fell down flat No hand of man interposed to bring about this catastrophe, no merely natural causes precipitated the fall; "by faith," as the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews declares,…