Josh 6
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Now Jericho was closely shut up and besieged, and none went out of it, and none came
in.
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And the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver Jericho into your power, and its king
in it, Gr. mighty in strength and its mighty men.
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And do you set the men of war round about it.
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And it shall be that when you shall sound with the trumpet, Gr. let all the people, etc. all the people shall shout together.
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And when they have shouted, the walls of the city shall fall Or, of their own accord of themselves; and all the people shall
enter, each one rushing direct into the city.
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And Joshua the son of Naue went in to the priests, and spoke to them, saying,
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And let seven priests having seven Heb. Mylbwyh twrpwv; A. V. «rams’ horns’; Only in this place sacred trumpets proceed thus
before the Lord, and let them sound loudly; and let
the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow.
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Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let your men of war pass
on armed before the Lord.
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And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind
the ark of the covenant of the Lord proceed sounding the trumpets.
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And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any one hear your voice,
until he himself declare to you the Gr. day time to cry out, and then you shall cry out.
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And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the
camp, and lodged there.
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And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark
of the covenant of the Lord.
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And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards
the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the
covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.
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And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short
distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.
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And on the seventh day they rose up early, and compassed the city on that day seven
times.
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And it came to pass at the seventh circuit the priests blew the trumpets; and Joshua
said to the children of Israel, Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.
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And the city shall be Gr. Or, an accursed thing devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do you
save
Raab the harlot, and all things in her house.
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But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest you set your mind upon
and take of the accursed thing, and you make the camp of the children of Israel an
accursed thing, and destroy us.
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And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall
be carried into the treasury of the Lord.
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And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets,
all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell
round about, and all the people went up into the city:
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and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and
woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the mouth edge of the sword.
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And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the
woman, and bring her out thence, and all that she has.
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And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman,
and brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren,
and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel.
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And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver,
and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.
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And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused
her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent
to spy out Jericho.
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And Joshua adjured them on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who
shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he
shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he
laid the foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest
Gr. saved surviving son.
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And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was in all the land.