Joshua 6:4

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Summary

And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

Trumpets of rams'

Seven times

Bible References

Trumpets of rams'

Jehovah said to Moses:

Jehovah said: I will rescue you and give you victory over the Midianites. Use the three hundred men who lapped the water. Tell everyone else to go home.

God is with us as our leader. His priests will sound their trumpets to call the army to fight you. Men of Israel do not wage war against Jehovah the God of your ancestors. You will not succeed.

You will not have to fight this battle. Just take up your positions and wait. You will see Jehovah give you victory. People of Judah and Jerusalem, do not hesitate or be afraid.' Go out to battle. Jehovah will be with you!

A great trumpet will sound. Those who were perishing in Assyria and those who were exiled in Egypt will come and worship Jehovah on the holy mountain in Jerusalem.

He answered: This is the word of Jehovah to Zerubbabel. Then Jehovah of Hosts said: 'Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit.'

Seven times

God blessed the seventh day and made it holy. This is because he rested from all the work of creation he had done.

Take with you seven of every kind of clean animal, a male and its mate, and two of every kind of unclean animal, a male and its mate.

dip a finger in the blood, and sprinkle some of it seven times toward the sacred chest behind the curtain.

He will dip his right finger in the oil in his left hand, and with his finger sprinkle some of the oil seven times in Jehovah's presence.

Count seven times seven years (seven sabbaths of years), a total of forty-nine years.

He said to Balak: Build seven altars here for me. Then bring me seven bulls and seven rams.

He told his servant to look in the direction of the sea. After he looked the servant said: There is nothing. Elijah said: Go again seven times. So he went seven times.

Elisha sent a servant to tell him to wash himself seven times in the Jordan River. He would then be completely cured of his disease.

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You did not speak correctly about me, as my servant Job has.

He asked: What do you see? I answered: I see a gold lamp stand, with a bowl on top and seven lamps. There are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top.

John, to the seven congregations in Asia: May you have grace and peace from him who is, and who was, and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits who are before his throne;

I saw a book in the right hand of him who sat on the throne. It had writing on the inside and on the back and was sealed with seven seals.

I saw the seven angels who stood before God. Seven trumpets were given to them.

And he cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roars: and when he had cried, seven thunders uttered their voices.

I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, seven angels having the seven last plagues. God uses them to finish expressing his anger.

I heard a loud voice from the temple say to the seven angels: Go your way, and pour out the bowls of the anger of God on the earth.