Joshua 6:12–21

¹²Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. ¹³The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of the rams’ horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and they blew on the trumpets. And the armed men went before them, and the rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, while the trumpets blew continually. ¹⁴And they marched around the city once on the second day, and they returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

¹⁵Then on the seventh day they rose early at dawn, and they marched around the city in this manner seven times. It was only on that day that they marched around the city seven times. ¹⁶And at the seventh time the priests blew on the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “Shout! For Yahweh has given you the city. ¹⁷The city and all that is in it will be devoted to Yahweh; only Rahab the prostitute and all who are with her in the house will live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸As for you, keep away from the things^g devoted to destruction so that you do not take them and bring about your own destruction, making the camp of Israel an object for destruction, bringing trouble upon it. ¹⁹But all of the silver and gold, and the items of bronze and iron, are holy to Yahweh, and they must go to Yahweh’s treasury.” ²⁰So the people shouted, and they^h blew on the trumpets. And when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, they raised a great shout, and the wall fell flat. The people charged, each one straight ahead into the city,ⁱ and they captured it. ²¹And they utterly destroyed by the edge of the sword^j all who were in the city, both men and women, young and old, ox, sheep, and donkey.