The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.
      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.