Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh.
      IV. All the people were commanded to be silent, not to speak a word, nor make any noise (Joshua 6:10; Joshua 6:10), that they might the more carefully attend to the sound of the sacred trumpets, which they were now to look upon as the voice of God among them; and it does not become us to speak when God is speaking. It likewise intimates their reverent expectation of the event. Zechariah 2:13, Be silent, O all flesh, before the Lord.Exodus 14:14, God shall fight, and you shall hold your peace.