OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 6:5

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It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”

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Verse 5. Tune, with certain modulations, continued for a long time. Numbers 10:5. Bible.—Ground. The Rabbins say they sink in, so that the ruins might not impede the march of the army. Some think only a large breach was made, opposite to the Israelites, as the house of Rahab upon the walls was preserved. Calmet.

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