Joshua 6:12–21

¹²Then Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests carried the ark of Yahweh.

^13aAnd the seven priests carrying 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 ^bthe rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh, and they continued to blow the trumpets.

¹⁴Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did so for six days.

¹⁵Then it happened that on the seventh day they rose early at the ¹breaking of dawn and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times.

¹⁶Now it happened that on the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “^aShout! For Yahweh has given you the city.

¹⁷“And the city shall be ^adevoted to destruction, it and all that is in it belongs to Yahweh; only Rahab the harlot ¹and all who are with her in the house shall live because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

¹⁸“But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things devoted to destruction, lest as you are devoting them to destruction, you also ^atake some of the things devoted to destruction and make the camp of Israel devoted to destruction and bring trouble on it.

¹⁹“^aBut all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh; they shall go into the treasury of Yahweh.”

²⁰So the people shouted, and ¹the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the ^awall fell down ²beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ³ahead, and they took the city.

^21aAnd they devoted to destruction everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.