Joshua's Faith

_VERSE 30._By faith, the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.

From the beginning of this chapter, to this thirtieth verse, we have heard two sorts of examples of faith: the first, of believers from the beginning of the world to the flood. The second, of such as were from the time of the flood, to the giving of the Law in Mount Sinai: and of both these, we have hitherto entreated. Now here, and so forward to the end of this chapter, is set down a third order of examples of faith; namely, of such as lived from the time of the giving of the Law, to the time of the reign of the Maccabees.

This thirtieth verse contains the first example of this rank; namely, the example of Joshuas faith, and of those that went with him into Canaan. And their faith is commended unto us by a notable fact of theirs; the causing to fall the walls of Jericho: the History whereof we may read at large, Joshua 6. The sum of it is this; Whereas the Israelites came unto Canaan, and could not enter into the Land, by reason of the strength of Jericho, by which they must needs pass, nor could win it by reason of the huge walls of Jericho; the Lord promises to deliver Jericho into their hands: only the people must do this; they must compass-about the walls seven days, and carry the Ark of the Lord with them, sounding with Rams horns, and shout, and so the walls should fall down. Now, the Lord having made this promise unto them; the Israelites, and specially Joshua, obey his commandment, and believe his promise: and thus doing, by faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed-about seven days. Indeed the power of God was the principal cause of this ruin of the walls: but yet because upon their believing, God showed this power, therefore is the downfall of them ascribed to their faith.

Here are many notable points to be learned. 1. Whereas the Text says, By faith the walls of Jericho fell down; we may observe the wonderful power of true faith. Joshua and the Israelites believed Gods promises, that he would overturn the walls of Jericho: and as they believed, so it came to pass. So our Savior Christ says, Matthew chapter 17 verse 20, If a man had but as much faith as a grain of mustard-seed, he shall say unto the mountain, remove hence, and it shall remove, and nothing shall be impossible unto him: signifying, that by the power of true faith, such things as are impossible to mans reason, shall be brought to pass, if God have promised them; as we see in this place, the mighty walls of Jericho fall down by faith, which to mans reason is impossible. So, the Lord promised to Abraham, That he should be the Father of many Nations: yea, that all the Nations of the earth should be blessed in him. This was strange; but Abraham believed it: and as he believed, so it came to pass; for, many Nations descended from him: and after the time of Christs ascension, when all the Nations of the world were called to the light of the Gospel, they were blessed in Christ, the promised Seed of Abraham: and therefore is he called the Father of the faithful in all Nations. And to come unto ourselves: To miserable men it may seem a strange thing, that the power of the devil and the strength of the flesh, should be overcome in us: yet let a man believe this promise of God; God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten son, that who so believed in him, should not perish, but have everlasting life, John chapter 3 verse 16: I say, let him believe this effectually, and he shall find by faith the Kingdom of sin and Satan, in his heart and conscience, weakened every day more and more. And therefore Saint John says not without cause, This is the victory that overcometh the world, even our faith, 1 John chapter 5 verse 4.

2. Here observe, that among the causes of the change and overthrow of Towns, Cities, and Kingdoms, this is one; namely, faith in Gods promises. Many men have written of the change of Kingdoms, and do give diverse reasons thereof: But most of them omit the principal, and that is faith; by virtue whereof many times Kingdoms and Towns are brought to ruin and overthrow. God promised to Abraham and to his seed, that he would give them the land of Canaan for their inheritance: now, they believed this promise, and here we see it comes to pass as they believed; Jericho by faith is overturned and the rest of their Cities, and the people of Canaan dispossessed. So that we see, faith in Gods promises, is a means to Gods people, to overturn cities and kingdoms, that are enemies to Christ and to his Gospel. God has made a promise unto his Church, that the whore of Babylon, Revelation chapter 18 verse 2, that is, the Kingdom of Antichrist shall flourish for a while, but after it shall be destroyed; yea, such a ruin shall come unto it, that the Kings of the earth, and all great men and Merchants shall bewail the destruction thereof. Now, this promise being received by faith, and believed of Gods Church, shall undoubtedly come to pass. It is in some part verified already (for we see, some Kingdoms and people have renounced the cursed Doctrine and tyranny of Rome; and many Christian Princes have already shaken off the Popes yoke) yea, and this promise shall come to pass daily more and more. Let all the Kings of that sort do what they can, and let the people set themselves never so much against Gods Church, yet Babylon shall down: for, God has promised so to his Church, and his Church believes the same; and therefore by their faith it shall be brought to pass, in despite of the devil.

Thirdly, here we learn, that when any City, Town, or Kingdom, is to make war either in defense of themselves, or in lawful assault upon their enemies; a special means for good success herein is true faith. Christian policy is a commendable thing in this case: but if policy be severed from faith, it is nothing. Faith in Gods promises of protection and assistance, does far surpass all worldly wisdom. And therefore good King Jehoshaphat, when he was to fight against the huge Armies of the Moabites, and Ammonites, gives this counsel to his people, 2 Chronicles chapter 20 verse 20, Put your trust in the Lord your God, and ye shall be assured: Believe his Prophets, and ye shall prosper; giving a most notable instruction, and showing that the best help for our defense, is faith in God, whereby we rest upon his word and promise, that he will help us: yet this takes not away the use of means, but it gives the blessing and efficacy unto them. Faith, we know, is called a shield, among the spiritual armor of God, whereby a man awards the blows of Satan: and though that be the principal virtue of it, yet is it also a notable shield to defend men, even against their outward and visible enemies, and a most strong engine against them, to work their overthrow. Hence David says, He will not be afraid for ten thousand of the people, that should beset him round about. They therefore that would defend themselves against their enemies (yea, and overcome them in lawful assault) must embrace and obey true religion; and with Christian policy, join faith in Gods promises: for, by faith we make God our Captain, and through him we shall do valiantly, and beat down our enemies on every side.

Lastly, here we may learn, what a vain thing it is to trust in outward worldly means. The walls of Jericho were both strong and high, and hard it had been to have overthrown them by ordinary means: but yet we see, it proved but a vain thing to trust unto them, as the men of Jericho did; for, they found but little relief and defense in them: for, the Lord lays them flat to the ground; and so the people of Israel went straight forward and took the City. So likewise it is a vain thing to trust to mans strength, or in the strength of an horse, or in the number of men, or in riches, or in gifts of wisdom and learning, or in any other outward ordinary means whatsoever: the reason is, because God can overturn them with the least breath of his mouth.

This must admonish us, that howsoever, we use ordinary means of our preservation and help, yet ever we must cast our whole care on God, and put all our confidence in him for help and safety: for, without him all other outward means are nothing but vain helps; For, vain is the help of man. And thus much for the fact it self.

Further, this fact is set out unto us by two circumstances; to wit, by the means which they used, and by the time which they observed for this exploit. For the first; when they come to Jericho, this strong City, which they must needs subdue (or else they could not this way enter and possess the Land), they do not go about to overturn the City by undermining, battering, or scaling the walls; but, according to Gods appointment, they go one by one in order round about the City walls day by day for one week space: and on the seventh day, they compass it seven times; during all which time they kept great silence, save only that seven Priests sounded upon seven trumpets of Rams-horns before the Ark, till Joshua bade them shout. Now, in common reason, a man would judge this rather to be some childish sport, than a means to fling down these great walls. Nay, consider it well, and it may seem a course tending rather to overthrow themselves, than the walls of Jericho: for, they marched not in battle array, as though they would pitch a field against the people of Jericho, or lay siege to their City; but they went in length one before another, so as they might compass the City about. Now, if the men of Jericho should have come forth, and made assault upon them, in all likelihood the Israelites had been overthrown; so weak and feeble were the means. And yet the Lord for weighty causes, prescribes this course unto them: to wit, First, Hereby to try the faith of his people, whether they will believe his promises or no, when they are enjoined to use weak and feeble means, and in mans reason foolish.

Secondly, to make manifest in the weakness and insufficiency of the means, his own all-sufficient power and wisdom, for the furtherance of his glory: for, through weakness is Gods power made perfect, 2 Corinthians chapter 12 verse 9. Hence, our Savior Christ, when he was to cure the man that was born blind, tempers clay of spittle, and lays it to his eyes, John, chapter 9 verse 6; A means in common reason, rather fit to make a man blind, than to recover his sight: and yet Christ uses it for the furtherance of Gods glory, in the manifestation of his Divine power, whereby the people might know he was able in himself, to do whatsoever he would.

Now, look what course the Lord here takes for the battering of the walls of Jericho, the like he uses in overthrowing the kingdom of the devil, the spiritual Jericho; especially in the New Testament. For, after Christs ascension, when he intended to destroy the Kingdom of darkness, under which all the nations sat, he sets apart a few fishermen, simple persons, wanting worldly wit and policy; neither did he put a sword of flesh into their hands, but the word of God into their mouths: and thus sent them to dispossess the devil out of all the world, and to batter down the kingdom of darkness by their preaching. And now in these later days, wherein the Antichristian kingdom of the Pope had spread itself through all places almost, God used the same weak means to overthrow it. For, he set apart a silly Monk, and endues him with gifts to preach the truth: by which means, the kingdom of Antichrist received a greater wound, than if ten Princes had set themselves against it. And strange it is to see, how God overturns all the stratagems devised against his Church, and how he vanquishes the power of sin, by the weak means of the Gospel preached, and by the prayers of the Church; than which, to the world nothing seems more feeble or foolish.

The consideration hereof is of special use: for it may be we shall see kings and people of great power and number to make revolt from the Gospel of Christ, and to fall to Antichrist, embracing popery. Hereat indeed we must be grieved, but yet withal, here is good cause of comfort unto us; for we must know that Satan's kingdom must be battered down, not so much by the power of kings, as by the breath of God's mouth: not so much by the sword of flesh, as by the sword of the spirit. So it is said, that the man of sin, even Antichrist must be abolished: not by the power of princes. Yea, let all the princes and potentates in the world do their best for him, yet his kingdom must down in God's good time; for God will consume him with the breath of his mouth, and abolish him by the brightness of his coming, 2 Thessalonians 2:8. That is, by the preaching of the word, in the mouths of his ministers, who are men void of all worldly power and policy.

Yet further, observe the means. They walk about the walls of Jericho seven days together. If men should attempt the like enterprise at this day, in all likelihood it would cost them their lives; for now there are devised such instruments of war, I mean great ordnance, and field pieces, that will kill afar off: and undoubtedly, if there had been such instruments of war in this city, the Israelites could not so safely have compassed the walls so many days together. Whereby it appears more than probable, that in those days there were no guns known; no, not amongst the heathen, which at this day are so rife amongst Christians. Whence may be gathered, that these later days are perilous times; for now men's heads are set to devise more hurtful means against the life of man, than ever the savage heathen knew. For, beside the invention of guns, which put down all evidence of prowess and valor, seen in ancient wars; our age exceeds in contriving such strange kinds of poisons, as were never known in former times. For men have now devised poison of that sort, that will kill a man, not presently; but a week, or a month, or a quarter of a year after: as appears by the confession of those, that have given themselves to study and practice such hurtful devices. And it is worth the marking, that the principal inventors and practitioners of such hurtful inventions, have been of the Romish religion.

The second circumstance to be observed is the Time of this exploit. It was not on any of the first six days, but on the seventh; and that after they had that day compassed the city about seven times: then when the priests blew the trumpets, and all the people shouted as Joshua bade them, the walls of Jericho fell down; for this was the time which God had appointed for this exploit. The reason why God appointed seven days, and seven times compassing on the seventh day, is not revealed unto us in the word of God: and therefore we may not curiously pry into it, nor yet (as some do) hence gather, that seven is a perfect number. But from the consideration of the very time wherein the walls fell down, we may learn this; that if we would have God to accomplish his promises unto us, we must wait for that time and season which he has appointed: we must not think that God will accomplish them when we appoint. But we must believe God's promise, and also wait his good leisure, and then will it come to pass. The Israelites compassed about Jericho one day, and the walls never stir; yea, they do so six days together, and six times more on the seventh day, and yet they stand fast: The reason is, Because God's appointed time was not yet come. But on the seventh day, when they had compassed them about the seventh time, all the people gave up the shout, and then they fell down; because that was the particular set time, wherein God would accomplish his promise.

Further, whereas they compass about the walls seven days together; it must needs be, that they went about them on the Sabbath day, for that was one of the seven. Now here a doubt arises: for this was a servile work upon the Sabbath, contrary to God's commandment; which enjoined so strict a rest upon the Sabbath day, that they might not kindle a fire thereon: how then could they lawfully compass the city on the Sabbath day? Answer. All God's commandments in the moral law must be understood with this exception; Thou shalt do thus and thus, unless I the Lord command thee otherwise: for God is an absolute Lord, and so above the law; and therefore may lawfully command that which the law forbids. In the second commandment he says, Thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image, etc. And yet Moses by God's special appointment set up a brazen serpent, which was a figure of Christ. Upon such a special command, Abraham lawfully offers to kill Isaac; the Israelites at their departure spoil and rob the Egyptians; and Joshua with the people, here compass the walls of Jericho on the Sabbath day.

Verse 30. By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been marched around for seven days.

From the beginning of this chapter through verse 29, we have heard two categories of examples of faith. The first was of believers who lived from the beginning of the world to the flood. The second was of those who lived from the flood to the giving of the law at Mount Sinai. Both of these we have now covered. From verse 30 onward to the end of this chapter, a third category of examples is presented -- those who lived from the time the law was given to the era of the Maccabees.

This thirtieth verse contains the first example in this third category: the faith of Joshua and those who entered Canaan with him. Their faith is commended through a remarkable act -- the causing of the walls of Jericho to fall. The full account can be read in Joshua 6. The essence of the story is this: when the Israelites arrived at Canaan, they could not enter the land because the fortified city of Jericho blocked their path, and they could not take it because of its massive walls. The Lord promised to deliver Jericho into their hands. All the people had to do was march around the walls for seven days, carrying the ark of the Lord with them, sounding rams' horns, and then shout -- and the walls would collapse. After the Lord made this promise, the Israelites -- and especially Joshua -- obeyed His command and believed His promise. And so by faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been marched around for seven days. God's power was the primary cause of the walls' destruction. But because God displayed that power in response to their believing, the downfall of the walls is attributed to their faith.

There are many important lessons to draw from this. First, the text says, 'By faith the walls of Jericho fell down.' Here we can observe the remarkable power of true faith. Joshua and the Israelites believed God's promise that He would bring down the walls of Jericho -- and it happened exactly as they believed. Our Savior Christ says the same thing: If you have faith the size of a mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move; and nothing will be impossible for you (Matthew 17:20). This means that through the power of true faith, things that are impossible according to human reason will actually happen -- if God has promised them. We see it here: the mighty walls of Jericho fall through faith, something completely impossible by any human calculation. The Lord promised Abraham that he would be the father of many nations -- and that all the nations of the earth would be blessed through him. This seemed incredible. But Abraham believed it, and it came to pass just as he believed. Many nations descended from him. And after Christ's ascension, when all the nations of the world were called to the light of the gospel, they were blessed in Christ, the promised Seed of Abraham. That is why he is called the father of all who believe, across all nations. To bring this closer to home: it may seem an impossible thing to sinful people that the power of the devil and the strength of the flesh could be overcome in us. Yet let a person believe God's promise -- 'For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life' (John 3:16). Let him believe this with living, effective faith, and he will find through faith that the kingdom of sin and Satan in his heart and conscience is weakened more and more every day. This is why John says with good reason: This is the victory that has overcome the world -- our faith (1 John 5:4).

Second, observe here that among the causes of the overthrow of towns, cities, and kingdoms, this is one: faith in God's promises. Many writers have analyzed the fall of kingdoms and offered various explanations, but most of them miss the most important one -- faith. Through faith, kingdoms and cities are often brought to ruin and destruction. God promised Abraham and his descendants that He would give them the land of Canaan as their inheritance. They believed this promise, and here we see it fulfilled. Jericho is overthrown by faith, along with the rest of Canaan's cities, and the people of Canaan are dispossessed. So we see that faith in God's promises is the means by which God's people overturn cities and kingdoms that are enemies of Christ and His gospel. God has made a promise to His church that the whore of Babylon (Revelation 18:2), that is, the kingdom of Antichrist, will flourish for a time but afterward will be destroyed. Such a ruin will come upon it that the kings of the earth, and all the great men and merchants, will weep over its destruction. This promise, received by faith and believed by God's church, will without question come to pass. It has already been partially fulfilled. We can see that some kingdoms and peoples have renounced the cursed doctrine and tyranny of Rome, and many Christian rulers have already thrown off the Pope's yoke. And this promise will continue to be fulfilled day by day. Let all the rulers of that sort do what they can, and let the people set themselves as fiercely as they will against God's church -- Babylon will fall. God has promised it to His church, and His church believes it. Therefore by their faith it will come to pass, in spite of the devil.

Third, we learn here that when any city, town, or kingdom is at war — whether in defense or in a lawful offensive — true faith is an essential means of success. Sound strategy is valuable in such situations. But strategy without faith is nothing. Faith in God's promises of protection and assistance far surpasses all worldly wisdom. King Jehoshaphat understood this well. When he was about to face the vast armies of the Moabites and Ammonites, he gave this counsel to his people: 'Put your trust in the Lord your God and you will be established. Trust His prophets and succeed' (2 Chronicles 20:20). He was giving a most profound lesson: the best resource for defense is faith in God — resting on His word and promise to help. This does not set aside the use of practical means, but it is what gives those means their blessing and effectiveness. Faith, we know, is called 'a shield' among the spiritual armor of God, by which a person deflects Satan's blows. Though that is its primary function, it is also a remarkable shield against outward, visible enemies — and a powerful weapon for bringing them down. This is why David says he will not be afraid 'of ten thousands of people who have set themselves against me round about.' Therefore, those who want to defend themselves against their enemies — and even overcome them in lawful battle — must embrace and live by true religion. They must join faith in God's promises to sound strategy. For through faith we make God our Commander, and through Him we will act valiantly and drive back our enemies on every side.

Finally, from this we learn how foolish it is to trust in outward worldly means. The walls of Jericho were both strong and high — it would have been extremely difficult to overthrow them by any ordinary means. Yet trusting in those walls, as the people of Jericho did, proved to be worthless. The walls gave them very little protection or defense, for the Lord laid them flat on the ground and the Israelites marched straight in and took the city. In the same way, it is vain to trust in human strength, in cavalry, in the size of an army, in wealth, in gifts of wisdom and learning, or in any other outward means. The reason is simple: God can overturn all of it with the lightest breath of His mouth.

This must warn us that however much we use ordinary means of protection and help, we must always cast our whole care on God and put all our confidence in Him for safety. Without Him, every outward means is a worthless prop — 'for the help of man is vain.' That is enough on the act itself.

This act is further illuminated by two circumstances: the means they used and the time they observed for this event. As to the first: when they came to Jericho — this fortified city they had to subdue in order to enter and possess the land — they did not try to bring down the walls by mining, battering, or scaling them. Instead, following God's command, they marched single file around the city walls day after day for seven days. On the seventh day they circled it seven times. Throughout all this they maintained complete silence, except that seven priests blew on seven rams' horn trumpets before the ark, until Joshua ordered the shout. By ordinary reasoning, a person would think this looked more like a children's game than a means of demolishing great walls. Consider it more carefully, and it looks like a course more likely to get themselves destroyed than to bring down Jericho's walls. They were not marching in battle formation as though preparing to fight the men of Jericho or lay siege to their city. They were moving single file, strung out in a long line just to encircle it. If the men of Jericho had come out and attacked them, the Israelites would in all likelihood have been routed — so weak and exposed were their means. Yet the Lord prescribed this course for weighty reasons. First, to test His people's faith: would they trust His promises when required to use means that by all human judgment seemed weak and foolish?

Second, to display His own all-sufficient power and wisdom through the weakness and inadequacy of the means — for the furtherance of His glory. As Paul says, 'power is perfected in weakness' (2 Corinthians 12:9). This is why our Savior Christ, when healing the man born blind, 'made clay of the spittle and applied the clay to his eyes' (John 9:6) — a means that by ordinary reasoning would seem more likely to blind a man than to restore his sight. Yet Christ used it to glorify God, demonstrating His divine power and making clear that He could do whatever He willed.

The same method the Lord used to bring down the walls of Jericho, He also uses to overthrow the kingdom of the devil — the spiritual Jericho — especially in the New Testament. After Christ's ascension, when He intended to destroy the kingdom of darkness that held all the nations in its grip, He chose a few fishermen — ordinary, simple men lacking worldly sophistication and influence. He put no physical sword in their hands but the word of God in their mouths. With these He sent them out to drive the devil from the whole world and demolish the kingdom of darkness through their preaching. And in more recent times, when the Antichristian kingdom of the Pope had spread itself through almost every corner of the world, God used the same weak means to overturn it. He set apart a simple monk and gave him gifts to preach the truth. Through that preaching, the kingdom of Antichrist received a greater wound than if ten princes had united against it. And it is a remarkable thing to see how God overturns every scheme devised against His church and how He defeats the power of sin through the apparently feeble means of the preached gospel and the prayers of the church — means that to the world seem more foolish and powerless than anything else.

This is a point of great practical importance. We may well see kings and powerful people turn away from the gospel of Christ and embrace Rome. This ought to grieve us. But there is also genuine comfort to be found here — we must understand that Satan's kingdom is brought down not so much by the power of kings as by the breath of God's mouth, not so much by the physical sword as by 'the sword of the Spirit.' This is why it is said that 'the man of sin' — Antichrist himself — must be destroyed, not by the power of earthly princes. Let all the princes and powerful leaders in the world do their utmost to support him — his kingdom must come down in God's appointed time. 'The Lord will slay him with the breath of His mouth and bring him to nothing by the appearance of His coming' (2 Thessalonians 2:8). That is, by the preaching of the word in the mouths of His ministers — men who have no worldly power or influence at all.

Notice further the means they used: 'They walked around the walls of Jericho for seven days together.' If anyone were to attempt such an approach in our day, it would likely cost them their lives. Artillery and field guns have now been invented that can kill from a great distance. If Jericho had possessed such weapons, the Israelites could not have marched around those walls safely for so many days. From this it seems virtually certain that guns were unknown in those days — even among the pagan nations — whereas now they are commonplace among those who call themselves Christian. From this we may gather that these later times are dangerous days. People now apply their minds to devising more deadly weapons against human life than the most barbaric pagans ever imagined. Beyond the invention of guns — which has eliminated the kinds of valor and skill that once distinguished ancient warfare — our age has surpassed all previous ones in devising strange poisons never known in earlier times. Poisons have now been created that do not kill immediately but take effect a week, a month, or even a quarter of a year later — as has been confessed by those who have devoted themselves to studying and practicing such destructive arts. And it is worth noting that the principal inventors and practitioners of such harmful inventions have been of the Roman religion.

The second circumstance to observe is the timing of this event. It was not on any of the first six days but on the seventh — and specifically after they had circled the city seven times on that day. Then, when the priests blew the trumpets and all the people shouted as Joshua commanded, the walls of Jericho fell. That was the moment God had appointed for this act. Why God appointed seven days, and why they were to circle the city seven times on the seventh day, is not revealed to us in God's word. We should not pry curiously into this, nor draw from it — as some do — the conclusion that seven is a perfect number. But from the timing of when the walls actually fell, we can learn this: if we want God to fulfill His promises to us, we must wait for the time and season He has appointed. We must not assume He will fulfill them on our schedule. We must believe God's promise — and then wait for His good timing. Then it will come to pass. The Israelites marched around Jericho on the first day and the walls did not stir. They did the same for six days, and then six more times on the seventh day — and the walls still stood. The reason: God's appointed time had not yet come. But on the seventh day, when they had circled the walls the seventh time, the people gave the shout — and the walls fell. Because that was the specific moment God had determined to fulfill His promise.

Furthermore, since they marched around the walls for seven days in a row, they necessarily walked around them on the Sabbath day, since that was one of the seven. A question arises here: this would have been physical labor on the Sabbath, contrary to God's command, which required such strict rest on that day that they were not even permitted to kindle a fire. How then could they lawfully march around the city on the Sabbath? Answer: All of God's commandments in the moral law must be understood with this exception: 'You shall do this — unless I the Lord command otherwise.' For God is an absolute Lord and therefore above the law. He may therefore lawfully command what the law would otherwise forbid. In the second commandment He says, 'You shall not make for yourself any carved image.' And yet by God's specific appointment, Moses erected a bronze serpent — which was a representation of Christ. By such a specific command, Abraham lawfully began to kill Isaac; the Israelites at their departure plundered the Egyptians; and here Joshua with the people marched around Jericho on the Sabbath day.