Jos_6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Ver. 1. Now Jericho was strictly shut up.] Claudens, et clausa erat: but there is no power or policy against the Lord. {Pro_21:30} The "Captain of God’s hosts" was before the city, and therefore
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, - as he told Phocas, - the town was soon taken.