According to Joshua 6:20 Jericho fell. I didn't read anything about Israel needing to strike, and they had great faith. Jesus said: “If ye abide in Me, and My words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you” (St. John 15:7). We need faith as we pray. Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.