#BATTLE NATIONS ANCIENT SENTRY FULL#

You and the rest of the city guard are seriously worried, but all you can do is watch and wait.

The next day the same thing happens and the next – and so on for six days, with these priests blowing their ear-splitting trumpets and the army parading in silence behind them.

#BATTLE NATIONS ANCIENT SENTRY FULL#

What’s occurring (as they say)? The procession moves solemnly around the walls, going full circle, and then disappears as suddenly as it arrived. Along they go, in silence, and you can’t make it out at all. Behind them comes a kind of cupboard on wheels, obviously some sort of sacred emblem – and then a small army of fighting men. You look down over the walls, and see this weird procession making its way round the foot of the walls – in silence, apart from this spine-chilling noise produced by rams’ horns, seven of them, blown by strangely-dressed figures. They had tried all the usual means: night raids, battering rams, catapulting molten pitch and maybe other stuff over the walls, but the city had proved impregnable, and you and your mates had easily warded off all attacks.īut then one day you hear this strange, raucous sound – like nothing you have ever heard before. That’s why the city was so well-fortified, with strong walls, and closely-guarded gates – and so far no-one had succeeded in attacking the city. Imagine you were a watchman, a sentry on duty guarding the walls of Jericho: a very necessary occupation, for the city stood in the middle of the fertile plains of central Canaan, and was subject to constant attack by various tribesmen then as now this was all disputed territory.

Blackburn Cathedral Choirs’ Association.

Battle nations ancient sentry