Numbers 31:6
thousand <0505> [a thousand.]
Twelve thousand in all--a small number in proportion to all Israel, or to the forces which they had to encounter. As they were under the conduct of captains of thousands and hundreds, they probably had no general; for Phinehas seems to have accompanied them simply to take charge of "the holy instruments;" probably the ark and silver trumpets.
Phinehas <06372> [Phinehas.]
holy articles <03627 06944> [the holy instruments.]
signal <08643> [to blow.]
Joshua 6:4-16
horns ...................... horns <07782> [trumpets of rams'.]
The words {shopheroth hyyovelim,} should rather be rendered jubilee, trumpets, i.e., such as were used on the jubilee, which were probably made of horn or silver: for the entrance of the Israelites into Canaan was indeed a jubilee to them (See Note on Le 25:11): instead of the dreadful trumpet of war, they were ordered to sound the trumpet of joy, as already conquerors.
seven .... seven ................. seven times <07651 06471> [seven times.]
<04900> [make a long.]
army ............... warriors <05971> [the people.]
wall <02346> [and the wall.]
The words {wenaphelah chomath hair tachteyha,} are literally, "and the wall of the city shall fall down under itself;" which appears simply to mean, that the wall shall fall down from its very foundation; which was probably the case in every part, though large breaches in different places might have been amply sufficient first to admit the armed men, after whom the host might enter to destroy the city. There is no ground for the supposition that the walls sunk into the earth.
<08478> [flat. Heb. under it.]
Pick up ... ark ......... carry ......... ark <0727 05375> [Take up the ark.]
armed <02502> [that is armed.]
before ... Lord ................ Lord <06440 03068> [before the Lord.]
guard <0622> [and the rereward. Heb. gathering. host.]
raise ... voices <06963 08085> [any noise with your voice. Heb. your voice to be heard.]
day <03117> [until the day.]
early ..... Joshua <03091 07925> [Joshua rose.]
priests <03548> [the priests.]
marched along ....... marched ......... followed <01980> [went on.]
<05927> [about the dawning.]
On .... day ................... time <03117> [only on that day.]
cry <07321> [Shout.]
Joshua 6:1
shut tightly <05462> [was straitly. Heb. did shut up, and was shut up.]
because <06440> [because.]
Joshua 15:24
Ziph <02128> [Ziph.]
Eusebius and Jerome say, that Ziph was a village in their time eight miles east from Hebron.
Telem <02928> [Telem.]
Joshua 16:6
Micmethath <04366> [Michmethah.]
Taanath Shiloh <08387> [Taanath-shiloh.]
Placed by Eusebius ten miles of Neapolis or Shechem.
Janoah <03239> [Janohah.]
Eusebius calls it [Iano,] in Acrabatene, twelve miles east from Neapolis.
Joshua 16:2
Bethel <01008> [Beth-el.]
Arkite <0757> [Archi.]
Joshua 13:12-15
Og <05747> [Og.]
Moses <04872> [these did.]
conquer <03423> [expelled.]
[See the Note on verse 33.]
