6:15 On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn 1 and marched around the city as before – only this time they marched around it seven times. 2
6:1 Now Jericho 3 was shut tightly 4 because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter. 5
10:16 The Lord rules forever! 8
The nations are driven out of his land. 9
1 tn Heb “On the seventh day they rose early, when the dawn ascended.”
2 tn Heb “and they went around the city according to this manner seven times, only on that day they went around the city seven times.”
3 map For location see Map5-B2; Map6-E1; Map7-E1; Map8-E3; Map10-A2; Map11-A1.
4 tn Heb “was shutting and shut up.” HALOT 2:743 paraphrases, “blocking [any way of access] and blocked [against any who would leave].”
5 tn Heb “there was no one going out and there was no one coming in.”
6 tn The Hebrew text has simply “the hill country,” which must here include the hill country of Ephraim and the forest regions mentioned in v. 15.
7 tn Heb “and there are iron chariots among all the Canaanites who live in the land of the valley, to those who are in Beth Shean and its daughters and to those who are in the Valley of Jezreel.” Regarding the translation “chariots with iron-rimmed wheels” see Y. Yadin, The Art of Warfare in Biblical Lands, 255 and R. Drews, “The ‘Chariots of Iron’ of Joshua and Judges,” JSOT 45 (1989): 15-23.
8 tn Heb “the
9 tn Or “the nations perish from his land.” The perfect verb form may express what is typical or it may express rhetorically the psalmist’s certitude that God’s deliverance is “as good as done.”