Chapter 6
1Jericho was shut and barred because of the sons of Israel; no one went out and no one came in.
2The LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have given Jericho, its king, and the mighty men of the army into your hand."
3You shall march around the city, all the men of war, surrounding the city once. Thus you shall do for six days.
4Seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
5It shall be that when they sound a long blast with the ram's horn, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout a great shout, and the wall of the city will fall under it, and the people shall go up, each man before him.
6Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD."
7He said to the people, "Pass on and march around the city, and let the armed men pass before the ark of the LORD."
8And it happened when Joshua had spoken to the people that the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD passed on and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
9The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard went after the ark, continually blowing the trumpets.
10Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, and you shall not let your voice be heard, and no word shall come out of your mouth until the day I say to you, 'Shout!' Then you shall shout."
11So the ark of the LORD went around the city once; then they came to the camp and spent the night in the camp.
12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests carried the ark of the LORD.
13The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went continually blowing the trumpets; the armed men went before them, and the rear guard went after the ark of the LORD, continually blowing the trumpets.
14They marched around the city on the second day once and returned to the camp; thus they did for six days.
15On the seventh day they rose early at the rising of dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they marched around the city seven times.
16At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the LORD has given you the city."
17The city shall be devoted, it and all that is in it, to the LORD; only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.
18But you, keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest you devote it and take any of the devoted thing and make the camp of Israel devoted and bring trouble on it.
19All the silver and gold and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they shall go into the treasury of the LORD.
20The people shouted and blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet and shouted a great shout, the wall fell under it, and the people went up into the city, each man before him, and captured the city.
21They devoted to destruction all that was in the city, from man to woman, from youth to old man, and to ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who belong to her, just as you swore to her."
23The young men who had spied went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all who belonged to her; they brought them out and left them outside the camp of Israel.
24They burned the city with fire and all that was in it; only the silver and gold and the vessels of bronze and iron they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
25Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute and her father's household and all who belonged to her, and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26At that time Joshua swore, saying, "Cursed before the LORD be the man who arises and builds this city Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he shall found it, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its doors."
27So the LORD was with Joshua, and his report was in all the land.
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