“Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Joshua 6 contains 27 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.