Joshua 6:7
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New International Version (©2011)
And he ordered the army, "Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the LORD."

New Living Translation (©2007)
Then he gave orders to the people: "March around the town, and the armed men will lead the way in front of the Ark of the LORD."

English Standard Version (©2001)
And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then he said to the people, "Go forward, and march around the city, and let the armed men go on before the ark of the LORD."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
He said to the people, "Move forward, march around the city, and have the armed troops go ahead of the ark of the LORD."

International Standard Version (©2012)
He told the army, "Go out and encircle the city. Have the armed men march out in front of the ark of the LORD."

NET Bible (©2006)
And he told the army, "Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD."

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
He told the troops, "March around the city. Let the armed men march ahead of the LORD's ark."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And he said unto the people, Pass on, and march around the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

American King James Version
And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

American Standard Version
And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Jehovah.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city, armed, marching before the ark of the Lord.

Darby Bible Translation
And he said to the people, Pass on, go round the city, and they that are armed shall pass on before the ark of Jehovah.

English Revised Version
And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

World English Bible
They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."

Young's Literal Translation
and He said unto the people, 'Pass over, and compass the city, and he who is armed doth pass over before the ark of Jehovah.'

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

6:6-16 Wherever the ark went, the people attended it. God's ministers, by the trumpet of the everlasting gospel, which proclaims liberty and victory, must encourage the followers of Christ in their spiritual warfare. As promised deliverances must be expected in God's way, so they must be expected in his time. At last the people were to shout: they did so, and the walls fell. This was a shout of faith; they believed the walls of Jericho would fall. It was a shout of prayer; they cry to Heaven for help, and help came.

Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - And he said. The text has they said. Our translators follow the Masoretic emendation. If we follow the original we must suppose that the priests, or, as with Keil and Knobel, the Shoterim (Joshua 1:10), conveyed Joshua's command to the troops.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he said unto the people, pass on, and compass the city,.... The women and children, the young men under twenty years of age, the unarmed part of the camp, as distinguished from the armed men:

and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord; to guard the ark, protect the priests, and defend the people, should any sally be made by the enemy upon them. These seem to design all the males that were above twenty years of age able to bear arms, and fit for war; though some restrain it to the forty thousand of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, Joshua 1:14.

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The Walls of Jericho
…6And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD. 7And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. 8And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. …

Joshua 6:6 So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it."
Joshua 6:8 When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the LORD went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the LORD's covenant followed them.