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You shall do so for six days. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And it will be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>beneath itself, and the people will go up every man <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>straight ahead.” <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Carry the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of Yahweh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>he said to the people, “Go forward, and march around the city, and let the armed men go on before the ark of Yahweh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And so it happened that, when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh passed on <i>forward</i> and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh came after them. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard came after the ark, while they continued to blow the trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you shall shout!” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So he had the ark of Yahweh <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>taken around the city, circling <i>it</i> once; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests carried the ark of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, and they continued to blow the trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then it happened that on the seventh day they rose early at the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>breaking of dawn and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Now it happened that on the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For Yahweh has given you the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And the city shall be devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it belongs to Yahweh; only Rahab the harlot <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>and all who are with her in the house shall live because she hid the messengers whom we sent. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest <i>as</i> you are devoting <i>them</i> to destruction, you also take some of the things devoted to destruction and make the camp of Israel devoted to destruction and bring trouble on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh; they shall go into the treasury of Yahweh.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>So the people shouted, and <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span><i>the priests</i> blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>ahead, and they took the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And they devoted to destruction everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Now to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>house of Yahweh. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua preserved alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then Joshua made them swear <i>an oath</i> at that time, saying, “Cursed before Yahweh is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with <i>the loss of</i> his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with <i>the loss of</i> his youngest son he shall set up its gates.” <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/6-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>So Yahweh was with Joshua, and the report about him was in all the land.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">5</span> Or <i>in its place</i><br><span class="fnverse">5</span> Lit <i>before himself</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>they</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Lit <i>to go around</i><br><span class="fnverse">15</span> Lit <i>rising</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>she and all</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Or <i>they</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>in its place</i><br><span class="fnverse">20</span> Lit <i>before himself</i><br><span class="fnverse">24</span> The tabernacle<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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