Joshua 6:12–20

¹²And Joshua rose early in the morning, ⁱand the priests took up the ark of the Lord. ¹³Then seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while the priests continued blowing the trumpets. ¹⁴And the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.

¹⁵But it came to pass on the seventh day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the city seven times. ¹⁶And the seventh time it happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people: “Shout, for the Lord has given you the city! ¹⁷Now the city shall be ^jdoomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all who are in it. Only ^kRahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because ^lshe hid the messengers that we sent. ¹⁸And you, ^mby all means abstain from the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, ⁿand trouble it. ¹⁹But all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are ²consecrated to the Lord; they ³shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”

²⁰So the people shouted when the priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that ^othe wall fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.