Joshua 6:12–21

¹²Now Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

^13aThe seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them and ^bthe rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while 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 on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times.

¹⁶At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “^aShout! For the Lord has given you the city.

¹⁷“The city shall be ^aunder the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; 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 under the ban, so that you do not ¹covet them and ^atake some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it.

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

²⁰So the people shouted, and ¹priests 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 ²flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ³ahead, and they took the city.

^21aThey ¹utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.