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1Now Jericho was tightly secured before the Israelites. There was no one leaving or entering.
2The Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho, its king, and mighty men of valor into your hand.[#Dt 7:24; Jos 2:9]
3All the men of fighting age shall march around the city. Circle the city once. Do this for six days.
4Seven priests shall carry seven ram’s horn trumpets before the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.
5When they blow a long blast on the ram’s horn and when you hear the trumpet sound, all the people shall shout a loud battle cry. The walls of the city will fall down, and the people will go up, every man straight ahead.”[#1Sa 4:5; #Jos 6:20]
6So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant. Seven priests bearing seven ram’s horn trumpets shall be in front of the ark of the Lord .”
7He said to the people, “Advance and march around the city. Let the armed men pass on before the ark of the Lord .”
8So when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing seven ram’s horn trumpets before the Lord advanced and blew their trumpets. The ark of the covenant of the Lord went after them.
9The armed men went before the priests blowing the trumpets, and the rear guard went after the ark while the trumpets were blowing.[#Nu 10:25]
10Now Joshua had commanded the people, “Do not shout a battle cry, and do not let your voices be heard. Do not let a word come out of your mouths until the time I say to you, ‘Shout the battle cry!’ Then shout.”
11So he had the ark of the Lord circle the city once. Then they came into the camp and spent the night there.
12Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests picked up the ark of the Lord .
13Seven priests bearing seven ram’s horn trumpets before the ark of the Lord moved on, blowing their trumpets continually. The armed men went before them, and the rear guard went after the ark of the Lord while the trumpets were blowing.
14The second day they circled the city once, and they returned to the camp. They did this for six days.
15Then on the seventh day they got up early as dawn was breaking and circled the city in this way seven times. Only on that day did they circle the city seven times.
16On the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets and Joshua said to the people, “Shout the battle cry, for the Lord has given you the city!
17The city and all that is in it are dedicated to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute may live, she, and all who are with her in her house, for she hid the messengers we sent.[#Dt 20:17]
18As for you, keep yourselves from that which is dedicated for destruction, lest you be destroyed. If you take from that which is dedicated for destruction, you will set the Israelite camp for destruction and bring trouble upon it.[#Jos 7:1, 11–12]
19All the silver, gold, and bronze and iron articles are set apart for the Lord . They will go into the treasury of the Lord .”[#1Ch 26:20]
20So the people shouted, and they blew the trumpets. When the people heard the trumpet sound, they shouted a loud battle cry, and the wall fell down. So the people went up into the city, one man after the other, and they captured it.[#Jos 6:5; Heb 11:30]
21They destroyed all that was in the city: man and woman, young and old, and oxen, sheep, and donkey with the edge of the sword.
22Yet to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “Enter the prostitute’s house, and bring out the woman and everyone who belongs to her, as you swore to her.”[#Heb 11:31]
23So the young men who had been spies entered and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, everyone who belonged to her, and her whole extended family. They brought them out and placed them outside of the camp of Israel.
24They burned the city and everything in it with fire. Only the silver, the gold, the bronze and iron articles they gave to the treasury of the house of the Lord .
25Yet Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, and everyone who belonged to her, Joshua let live. They live among Israel to this day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho.[#Mt 1:5]
26At that time Joshua made them swear, “Cursed before the Lord will be the man who arises and rebuilds this city of Jericho.
He will establish it
at the cost of his firstborn
and erect its gates
at the cost of his youngest child.”
27So the Lord was with Joshua, and he became famous throughout the land.[#Jos 1:5; #Jos 9:1]