Commentaries:Barnes' Notes
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Joshua 6:1
This verse is strictly parenthetical. It is inserted to explain the declaration commenced Joshua 5:14, and interrupted by Joshua' s question and obeisance Joshua 5:14-15, but resumed in Joshua 6:2.
Straitly shut up - See the margin, i. e., not only shut, but barred and bolted.
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