The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Joshua 06
1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because ofthe childrenofIsrael. No one went
out, and no one came in.
2 Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have
given Jericho into your hand, with its king
and the mighty men of valor.
3 All of your men of war shall march
around the city, going around the city
once. You shall do this six days.
4 Sevenpriests shallbear seventrumpets
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.
5 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.”
6 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.”
7 They said to the people, “Advance!
March around the city, and let the armed
men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”
8 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 covenantfollowed
them.
9The armed men went before the priests
who blew the trumpets, and the ark went
after them. The trumpets sounded as they
went.
10 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.”
11 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.
12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and
the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.
13 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.
14 The second day they marched around
the city once, and returned into the camp.
They did this six days.
15 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.
16 At the seventh time, when the priests
blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the
city!
17 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.
18 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.
19 But all the silver, gold, and vessels of
bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They
shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”
20 So the people shouted and the priests
blew the trumpets. When the people
heard the sound ofthe 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.
21 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.
22 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.”
23 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.
24 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.
25 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.
26 Joshua commanded them withanoath
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.”
27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his
fame was in all the land.