BRAGADAYJAH 636
Events on the Seventh Day
The children of Israel for six days, marched around the city
walls of Jericho, and save for the noise of the trumpets it was as peaceful as
could be. The inhabitants of the city
must have looked upon the marchers as a bunch of depraved fools engaging in a
senseless exercise in futility. So one
could imaging that on the seventh morning little interest w as shown in the
spectacle of the march, nor were particularly concerned about the marchers. They might even have been encouraged asking
themselves what was there to fear. But wait a minute, this time it was
different. The Israelites had risen and taken to the march at the breaking of
the dawn and began to march around the city not once as before, but seven
times, they circled the city and this time Joshua commanded them to shout, and
the people shouted and the walls came tumbling down, and the city was captured,
and the inhabitants killed, all except Rahab and her family because the Lord
had spared her because she had given help to the two spies; and Joshua reminded
the men that she and her family were not to be harmed. So entering into the
city, Joshua commanded the two spies to go into the house of Rahab and bring
her out as they had promised to do and after they had done so, Joshua set fire
to the entire city.
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