Joshua 6:6-17

⁶So Joshua, son of Nun, sent for the priests, and told them, “Pick up the Ark of Agreement, and have seven priests carry seven rams' horns and go ahead of the Ark of the Lord.”

⁷Then he told the people, “Move out! March around the city with the armed men up front ahead of the Ark of the Lord!”

⁸When Joshua finished speaking to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven rams' horns in the presence of the Lord started out, blowing the horns, with the Ark following behind.

⁹Some of the armed men marched ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while some followed the Ark, the horns being blown continually.

¹⁰However, Joshua ordered them, “Don't shout, don't even talk. Don't say anything until I tell you all to shout—then shout!”

¹¹So the Ark of the Lord was carried around the city, circling it once. Then they returned to the camp and spent the night there.

¹²Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests picked up the Ark of the Lord.

¹³The seven priests with the seven rams' horns went ahead of the Ark of the Lord, blowing the horns. The armed men went before them and behind the Ark of the Lord, the horns being blown continually.

¹⁴So on the second day they marched around the city, circling it once, and returned to the camp. They did this for a total of six days.

¹⁵On the seventh day they got up at dawn and marched around the city in the usual way, except that this day they circled the city seven times.

¹⁶The seventh time around when the priests blew the horns, Joshua told the people, “Shout! For today the Lord has given the city to you!

¹⁷The city and everything in it is to be set apart for the Lord and destroyed. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house shall be spared, because she hid the spies we sent.