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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2Then the LORD said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant of the LORD and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it." |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7And he ordered the army, "Advance! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark of the LORD." |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the LORD went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the LORD's covenant followed them. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9The armed guard marched ahead of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark. All this time the trumpets were sounding. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10But Joshua had commanded the army, "Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!" |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. Then the army returned to camp and spent the night there. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Joshua got up early the next morning and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets went forward, marching before the ark of the LORD and blowing the trumpets. The armed men went ahead of them and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets kept sounding. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14So on the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15On the seventh day, they got up at daybreak and marched around the city seven times in the same manner, except that on that day they circled the city seven times. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city! |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17The city and all that is in it are to be devoted to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron are sacred to the LORD and must go into his treasury." |
| 20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21They devoted the city to the LORD and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it--men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys. |
| 22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her." |
| 23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel. |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house. |
| 25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho--and she lives among the Israelites to this day. |
| 26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: "Cursed before the LORD is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: "At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates." |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land. |
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