Joshua 6
1NOW Jericho was shut up, and barricaded, so that none came out of it, nor went in.
2Then the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver into thy hand, Jericho, and the king thereof, who is in it, and the mighty men of valour.
3Therefore array thou the warriors around it.
4And when you blow the trumpets,
5let all the people at the same time shout; and upon their shouting, the walls of the city will fall of their own accord; and all the people shall enter, every one straight forward into the city.
6Thereupon Joshua son of Naue went to the priests,
7and spoke to them, saying, Order the people to march round, and encompass the city, and let the warriors march armed before the Lord;
8and let the seven priests, who have the seven holy trumpets, march also before the Lord, and blow a long blast. And let the ark of the covenant of the Lord accompany them.
9Let the warriors march before, and the priests follow in the rear, after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, blowing the trumpets.
10Then Joshua gave a charge to the people, saying, Shout not, nor let any one hear your voice, till the day when He shall command you to shout. Then you shall shout.
11So when the ark of the covenant had gone round, it straightway returned to the camp, and lodged there.
12And on the second day Joshua arose, early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord,
13and the seven priests with the seven trumpets, marched on before and Lord and after them came the warriors, and all the rest of the multitude followed the ark of the covenant of the Lord. And the priests sounded the trumpets;
14and all the multitude compassed the city six times, very near, and returned again to the camp. Thus they did six days.
15But on the seventh day—they arose very early, and went round the city that day seven times.
16And, at the seventh round, the priests sounded the trumpets, and Joshua said to the Israelites, Shout, for the Lord hath delivered up the city to you.
17And this city shall be an Anathema. It, and all that are in it, shall be devoted to the Lord of Sabaoth; save Rahab the harlot. Her you shall save alive, and all that are in her house.
18But be you very careful to abstain from the Anathema, lest peradventure you through covetousness, take something of what is devoted, and make the camp of the Israelites an Anathema, and destroy us.
19All the silver, and the gold, and the brass, and the iron, shall be consecrated to the Lord, and carried to the Lord’s treasury.
20Then the priests sounded the trumpets; and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people together uttered a great, loud, and continued shout, whereupon the whole wall round about fell, and all the people went up into the city.
21Now when Joshua devoted it, and all that were in it, men and women, young and old, ox and ass, to the edge of the sword,
22he said to the two young men who had been sent as spies, Go to the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, with all that she hath.
23And when the two young men, who had spied the city had gone to the house of the woman, and had brought out Rahab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and her kindred, and all that were with her, and placed them without the camp of Israel,
24the city was burned with fire, with all that were in it, save the silver, and gold, and the brass, and iron, which they gave to be carried to the treasury of the Lord.
25So Joshua saved Rahab the harlot and all her father’s household alive. And at this day they dwell among Israel, because she concealed the spies whom Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho.
26And on that day Joshua uttered an imprecation before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall rebuild this city. With his first-born let him lay the foundation, and with his youngest son erect its gates. And so did Hozan of Baithel: he laid the foundation in Abiron, his first-born, and set up its gates by his youngest surviving son.
27Thus the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread through all the land.