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Joshua 6 NASB 1995
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You shall do so for six days. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-4.htm" target="_top"><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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>“It shall 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 flat, and the people will go up every man straight ahead.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>So Joshua the 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 L<font size="1">ORD</font>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>Then he said to the people, “Go forward, and march around the city, and let the armed men go on before the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>And it was <i>so,</i> that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> went forward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> followed them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-10.htm" target="_top"><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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>So he had the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> taken around the city, circling <i>it</i> once; then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Now Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them and the rear guard came after the ark of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, while they continued to blow the trumpets. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-14.htm" target="_top"><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> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day 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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has given you the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>“The city shall be under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things under the ban, so that you do not covet <i>them</i> and take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>; they shall go into the treasury of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>So the people shouted, and <i>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 flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>They utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-23.htm" target="_top"><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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>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 house of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>However, Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua spared; 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> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed before the L<font size="1">ORD</font> 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="http://biblehub.com/joshua/6-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>So the L<font size="1">ORD</font> was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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