[1] Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel: none
went out, and none came in. [2] Yahweh said to Joshua, Behold, I have given
into your hand Jericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men of valor.
[3] You shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city
once. Thus shall you do six days. [4] Seven priests shall bear seven
trumpets of rams` horns before the ark: and the seventh day you shall
compass 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; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall
go up every man straight before 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 the ark of Yahweh. [7]
They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed
men pass on before the ark of Yahweh. [8] It was so, that when Joshua had
spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams`
horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the
covenant of Yahweh followed them. [9] The armed men went before the priests
who blew the trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark, [the priests]
blowing the trumpets 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 bid you shout; then shall
you shout. [11] So he caused the ark of Yahweh to compass the city, going
about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. [12]
Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of
Yahweh. [13] The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams` horns
before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and
the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of
Yahweh, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went. [14] The second
day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did
six days. [15] It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven
times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times. [16] It
happened 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 therein, 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 the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take
of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and
trouble it. [19] But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and
iron, are holy to Yahweh: they shall come into the treasury of Yahweh. [20]
So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it
happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that 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 before 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, and 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 out there the woman, and all that
she has, as you swore to her. [23] The young men the spies went in, and
brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and
all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they set
them outside of the camp of Israel. [24] They burnt the city with fire, and
all that was therein; only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of
brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of Yahweh. [25]
But Rahab the prostitute, and her father`s household, and all that she had,
did Joshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Israel to this day,
because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. [26]
Joshua charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man
before Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with the loss of
his firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his
youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. [27] So Yahweh was with
Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.