Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 6:5

5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the rams horns, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the City shall fall down † flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

As is usual in the close of musical sounds.

Not all of it; which was not only unnecessary, but inconvenient, and might have given the people better opportunity of escaping, but only a considerable part of it where the Israelites might fitly enter: for Rahabs house was not overthrown, v. 22.

Heb. under it, i. e. below the place they stood in: Or, in its place: it was not battered down with Engines, which would have made part of it fall out of its place; but it fell without any force, and of its own accord, and therefore in the place it did formerly stand in.

Marginal references: ‡ Heb. [illegible: 1 word] it.