Joshua 6:1WEB
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
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Joshua 6:1WEB
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
Joshua 6:2WEB
Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:3WEB
All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
Joshua 6:4WEB
Seven priests shall bear 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.
Joshua 6:5WEB
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; then the city wall will fall down flat, and the people shall go up, every man straight in front of him.”
Joshua 6:6WEB
Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh’s ark.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:7WEB
They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:8WEB
It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before Yahweh advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of Yahweh’s covenant followed them.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:9WEB
The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
Joshua 6:10WEB
Joshua commanded the people, saying, “You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”
Joshua 6:11WEB
So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:12WEB
Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:13WEB
The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of Yahweh’s ark went on continually, and blew the trumpets. The armed men went in front of them. The rear guard came after Yahweh’s ark. The trumpets sounded as they went.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:14WEB
The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
Joshua 6:15WEB
On the seventh day, they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. On this day only they marched around the city seven times.
Joshua 6:16WEB
At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:17WEB
The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:18WEB
But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed and trouble it.
Joshua 6:19WEB
But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:20WEB
So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. 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 in front of him, and they took the city.
Joshua 6:21WEB
They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Joshua 6:22WEB
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house, and bring the woman and all that she has out from there, as you swore to her.”
Joshua 6:23WEB
The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They also brought out all of her relatives, and they set them outside of the camp of Israel.
Joshua 6:24WEB
They burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of bronze and of iron into the treasury of Yahweh’s house.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:25WEB
But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Joshua 6:26WEB
Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, “Cursed is the man before Yahweh who rises up and builds this city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn he will lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he will set up its gates.”
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Joshua 6:27WEB
So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
“Yahweh” is the divine name in this translation. Many Bibles say “the LORD.”
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.