And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

And they compass the city on the second day once, and turn back to the camp; thus they have done six days.

The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.

Circuiverunt ergo urbem dic secundo vice alia, reversique sunt ad castra: sic fecerunt sex diebus.

So they did six days - It is not likely that the whole Israelitish host went each day round the city. This would have been utterly impossible: the fighting men alone amounted to nearly 600,000, independently of the people, who must have amounted at least to two or three millions; we may therefore safely assert that only a select number, such as was deemed necessary for the occasion, were employed. Jericho could not have been a large city: and to reduce it could not have required a hundredth part of the armed force under the command of Joshua.

And the second day they compassed the city once,.... Went round it one time only; as on the first:
and returned into the camp: which was at Gilgal, Joshua 5:10,
so they did six days: four more after these two successively, and proceeded in the same order and manner as on those two days.