Joshua 6:8-27

⁸Charge the people to go round, and encompass the city; and let your men of war pass on armed before the Lord.

⁹And let the men of war proceed before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of the Lord proceed sounding the trumpets.

¹⁰And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any one hear your voice, until he himself declare to you the time to cry out, and then you° shall cry out.

¹¹And the ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp, and lodged there.

¹²And on the second day Joshua rose up in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

¹³And the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on, and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

¹⁴And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did six days.

¹⁵And on the seventh day they rose up early, and compassed the city on that day seven times.

¹⁶And it came to pass at the seventh circuit the priests blew the trumpets; and Joshua said to the children of Israel, Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.

¹⁷And the city shall be devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of Hosts: only do you° save Raab the harlot, and all things in her house.

¹⁸But keep yourselves strictly from the accursed thing, lest you° set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and you° make the camp of the children of Israel and accursed thing, and destroy us.

¹⁹And all the silver, or gold, or brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury of the Lord.

²⁰And the priests sounded with the trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the people went up into the city:

²¹and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the edge of the sword.

²²And Joshua said to the two young men who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out thence, and all that she has.

²³And the two young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of Israel.

²⁴And the city was burnt with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.

²⁵And Joshua saved alive Raab the harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

²⁶And Joshua adjured them on that day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall build that city: he shall lay the foundation of it in his firstborn, and he shall set up the gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he laid the foundation in Abiron his firstborn, and set up the gates of it in his youngest surviving son.

²⁷And the Lord was with Joshua, and his name was in all the land.