{"id":53417,"date":"2019-04-08T17:23:30","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T14:23:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/?p=53417"},"modified":"2022-11-01T09:50:30","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T07:50:30","slug":"and-the-walls-came-tumbling-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.929.org.il\/en\/and-the-walls-came-tumbling-down\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cAnd the Walls Came Tumbling Down\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-content\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[281],"tags":[471,412,726],"acf":{"old_id":"53417","type":"no","iframe":"","writer":34243,"related_cahpter":"193","type_929":"2","show_author_image":false,"old_create_date":"","old_url":"","post_main_content":{"description":"Taking responsibility for the national destiny - naturally","content":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the most striking features of the narrative of the fall of the walls and city of Jericho is the prominence of the number seven. Seven priests hold seven horns (verses 4, 6, 8, 13) while circling the city on seven consecutive days, completing seven circuits on the seventh day (15). Traditionally, the number seven, being the number of days in a week, symbolizes the natural order, while eight, being in excess of seven, symbolizes something supernatural. (Hence, circumcision, which is clearly meant to supersede the natural order, takes place on the eighth day.)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That being the case, we might have expected the fall of Jericho to have been subject to the rule of eights since, presumably, it was miraculous. The prominence of seven, however, seems to indicate the opposite; from the perspective of the Book of Joshua it was accomplished within the natural order.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ten plagues, the crossing of the Red Sea, the manna and quail in the wilderness, were all divine gifts that were bestowed upon a passive Israel as epitomized by the verse \u201cThe Lord will fight on your behalf while you remain silent\u201d (Exodus 14:14). With the crossing of the Jordan and the entry into the Land of Israel, however, the people were now being actively entrusted with their own fate. In our comments on Chapter Three, we observed that unlike the Red Sea that split when Moses merely waved his staff over it, the priests bearing the Ark had to immerse their feet in the Jordan before it stopped flowing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now, as Israel approached its first military target, this new expectation continued. For six days, only the priests and the Ark participated. On the seventh day, the whole nation got involved. Of course their shouting and horn blowing was insufficient, in itself, to cause the wall to fall down flat (verse 20); but, on the other hand, it appears that without their contribution God would not have done it alone. 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