Joshua 6

1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.Cross-references: Josh 2:7 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 2:24 · 2Ki 17:4 · Ps 127:1

2Yahweh said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.Cross-references: Deut 7:24 · Josh 2:9 · Josh 2:24 · Josh 5:13 · Josh 6:9 · Josh 8:1 · +10 more

3All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.Cross-references: Num 14:9 · Josh 6:7 · Josh 6:14 · 1Cor 1:21 · 2Cor 4:7

4Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets 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.Cross-references: Gen 2:3 · Gen 7:2 · Lev 4:6 · Lev 14:16 · Lev 25:8 · Num 10:1 · +23 more

5It 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.”Cross-references: Ex 19:19 · Josh 6:16 · Josh 6:20 · Judg 7:20 · 1Sam 4:5 · 1Sam 17:20 · +8 more

6Joshua 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.”Cross-references: Ex 25:14 · Deut 20:2 · Josh 3:3 · Josh 3:6 · Josh 6:8 · Josh 6:13 · +1 more

7They said to the people, “Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh’s ark.”Cross-references: Josh 1:14 · Josh 4:13 · Josh 6:3

8It 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 covenant followed them.Cross-references: Num 32:20 · Josh 6:3

9The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.Cross-references: Num 10:25 · Josh 6:13 · Isa 52:11 · Isa 58:8

10Joshua 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.”Cross-references: 2Sam 5:23 · Isa 28:16 · Isa 42:2 · Matt 12:19 · Luke 24:49 · Acts 1:7

11So he caused Yahweh’s ark to go around the city, circling it once. Then they came into the camp, and stayed in the camp.

12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up Yahweh’s ark.Cross-references: Gen 22:3 · Deut 31:25 · Josh 3:1 · Josh 6:6 · John 2:5 · John 6:10 · +2 more

13The 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.Cross-references: 1Chr 15:26 · Matt 24:13 · Gal 6:9

14The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.Cross-references: Josh 6:3 · Josh 6:11 · Josh 6:15

15On 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.Cross-references: Ps 119:147 · Matt 28:1 · 2Pet 1:19

16At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!Cross-references: Josh 6:5 · Judg 7:20 · 2Chr 13:15 · 2Chr 20:22

17The 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.Cross-references: Gen 12:3 · Lev 27:28 · Num 21:2 · Deut 20:17 · Josh 2:1 · Josh 2:4 · +18 more

18But 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.Cross-references: Deut 7:26 · Deut 13:17 · Josh 7:1 · Josh 7:11 · Josh 7:15 · Josh 7:25 · +11 more

19But all the silver, gold, and vessels of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh’s treasury.”Cross-references: Lev 19:24 · Num 31:22 · 2Sam 8:11 · 1Ki 7:51 · 1Ki 14:26 · 2Ki 24:13 · +15 more

20So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the 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.Cross-references: Josh 6:5 · 2Cor 10:4 · Heb 11:30

21They 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.Cross-references: Deut 2:34 · Deut 7:2 · Deut 7:16 · Deut 20:16 · Josh 9:24 · Josh 10:28 · +9 more

22Joshua 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.”Cross-references: Josh 2:1 · Josh 6:17 · Josh 9:15 · Josh 9:18 · 2Sam 21:2 · 2Sam 21:7 · +5 more

23The 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.Cross-references: Gen 12:2 · Gen 18:24 · Gen 19:29 · Num 5:2 · Num 31:19 · Josh 2:13 · +6 more

24They 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.Cross-references: Deut 13:16 · Josh 6:19 · Josh 8:28 · 2Ki 25:9 · Rev 17:16 · Rev 18:8

25But 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.Cross-references: Josh 2:6 · Josh 4:9 · Josh 11:19 · Judg 1:24 · Matt 1:5 · Acts 2:21 · +2 more

26Joshua commanded them with an oath 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.”Cross-references: Num 5:19 · 1Sam 14:24 · 1Ki 16:34 · 1Ki 22:16 · Mal 1:4 · Matt 26:63 · +1 more

27So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.Cross-references: Gen 39:2 · Gen 39:21 · Deut 31:6 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:9 · Josh 9:1 · +12 more