[Eccl 10:2]

Would you consider marching around the walls of Jericho blowing trumpets and making a hoopla a "noisy gong"?;-)

For the benefit of others (I know you are kidding - ;-) ), to answer your question:

Joshua 6
1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
2 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3 March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. 4 Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. 5 When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go up, every man straight in."

Joshua had rather direct orders from God to do this. I suspect not so this other gentleman.

[sirchtruth]

I suspect not so this other gentleman.

Especially, if the law was against such an action. The Lord is not going to contradict commands.

On a totally unrelated subject, but since we're talking about "clanging cymbols", you really wanna know what freaks me out? Not only the "serpant" speaking to Eve, but the donkey speaking to Balaam. There's no indication that I have found in the scripture that this was a big deal to either of them that some animal was trying to carry on a conversation.

In fact Balaam goes on to tell the donkey, "I would have killed you if I had a sword in my hand"...He doesn't even consider or act in the least bit startled that a donkey is speaking to him...I'da been freakin' out!

This for some reason has been on my mind and I just had to spill....Thanks!