Joshua 6

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1. 1Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out, and no one came in.
2. 2The LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty warriors."
3. 3Have all your men of war march around the city once. Do this for six days.
4. 4Seven priests will carry seven trumpets made of ram's horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, you will march around the city seven times while the priests blow the trumpets.
5. 5When they make a long blast with the ram's horn and you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people must shout loudly. The wall of the city will fall down flat, and each person will ascend straight ahead.
6. 6Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and have seven priests carry seven trumpets made from rams' horns in front of the ark of the LORD."
7. 7Then he told the people, "Move out! March around the city, and let the armed men go ahead of the LORD's ark."
8. 8After Joshua spoke to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets made of ram's horns went ahead of the LORD and blew the trumpets, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD following them.
9. 9The armed men marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark, with the priests continuing to blow the trumpets.
10. 10Joshua had given the people strict orders: "Don't shout. Don't make a sound. Don't let a single word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you'll shout."
11. 11So the ark of the LORD circled the city once, and then they returned to the camp and stayed there for the night.
12. 12Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests carried the ark of the LORD.
13. 13The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets made from rams' horns marched continuously in front of the ark of the LORD, blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them, and the rear guard followed behind the ark of the LORD, with the priests continuing to blow the trumpets.
14. 14On the second day, they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
15. 15On the seventh day, they got up early at dawn and marched around the city in the same way, but this time they went around it seven times. That was the only day they marched around it seven times.
16. 16At the seventh time around, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua told the people, "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city!"
17. 17The city and everything in it shall be accursed to the LORD. Only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers we sent.
18. 18But be sure to keep yourselves from the accursed thing, or you will make yourselves accursed by taking it, and you will make the camp of Israel a curse and trouble it.
19. 19All the silver, gold, and items of bronze and iron are consecrated to the LORD. They must be placed in the LORD's treasury.
20. 20The people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. As soon as they heard the trumpet sound and shouted loudly, the wall fell down flat. Each man went straight into the city, and they captured it.
21. 21They utterly destroyed all that was in the city with the edge of the sword—both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey.
22. 22But Joshua had told the two men who had scouted the land, "Go into the harlot's house and bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her."
23. 23The young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and everything she owned. They brought out all her relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel.
24. 24They burned the city with fire, and everything in it. Only the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron were set apart and placed in the treasury of the house of the LORD.
25. 25Joshua saved Rahab the harlot, her father's household, and all she had. She has lived among the Israelites to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26. 26At that time, Joshua made the people take an oath, saying, "Cursed before the LORD is anyone who rebuilds this city of Jericho. He will lay its foundation at the cost of his firstborn son, and he will set up its gates at the cost of his youngest son."
27. 27The LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the entire land.