Six times on this seventh day Israel compassed the city in silence, in full obedience to the command of Joshua. Not till commanded to do so did all the people shout. Their implicit obedience in this was a striking demonstration of their faith (see Heb. 11:30). In that crucial hour Israel acted with unanimity and singleness of heart. Had they continued in that experience their course in history would have been entirely different. They would have fulfilled the divine plan, and their witness would have gone to the whole world. Jerusalem would have been established forever as the center of a great spiritual kingdom.