V.1-5 Jericho was the first great city of the land they were to conquer. It is a picture of the world which is totally against God and under the control of Satan, the god of the world (2 Cor. 4:4). The way the city is taken shows plainly that the power to overcome it was totally from God.
V.2 Could Joshua ever doubt that they wouldn’t take the city? We believers today can have the same confidence as Joshua when we read Ephesians 1:1-14. We have been given all the blessings we will ever have, even in heaven. But are we really enjoying them and living them? Joshua believed and he obeyed. He did exactly what God told him to do. And we read the result in the end of the chapter. Will this be true of our life?
V.6-14 It was not because of a fine, powerful army or of their fighting abilities, but of God’s power acting for them. They acted in simple obedience.