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started marching in the presence of the Lord, blowing the horns as they
marched. And the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant followed behind them.
Some of the armed men marched in front of the priests with the horns and
some behind the Ark, with the priests continually blowing the horns. “Do
not shout; do not even talk,” Joshua commanded. “Not a single word from
any of you until I tell you to shout. Then shout!” So the Ark of the Lord
was carried around the town once that day, and then everyone returned
to spend the night in the camp.
Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests again carried
the Ark of the Lord. The seven priests with the rams’ horns marched in
front of the Ark of the Lord, blowing their horns. Again the armed men
marched both in front of the priests with the horns and behind the Ark
of the Lord. All this time the priests were blowing their horns. On the
second day they again marched around the town once and returned to the
camp. They followed this pattern for six days.
On the seventh day the Israelites got up at dawn and marched around
the town as they had done before. But this time they went around the town
seven times. The seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long
blast on their horns, Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the Lord
has given you the town! Jeric ho and everything in it must be completely
destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and the
others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.
“Do not take any of the things set apart for destruction, or you yourselves will be completely destroyed, and you will bring trouble on the
camp of Israel. Everything made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron is sacred
to the Lord and must be brought into his treasury.”
When the people heard the sound of the rams’ horns, they shouted as
loud as they could. Suddenly, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Is
raelites charged straight into the town and captured it. They completely
destroyed everything in it with their swords—men and women, young
and old, cattle, sheep, goats, and donkeys.
Meanwhile, Joshua said to the two spies, “Keep your promise. Go to the
prostitute’s house and bring her out, along with all her family.”
The men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, brothers, and all the other relatives who were with her. They
moved her whole family to a safe place near the camp of Israel.
Then the Israelites burned the town and everything in it. Only the
things made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron were kept for the treasury of
the Lord’s house. So Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute and her relatives
who were with her in the house, because she had hidden the spies Joshua
sent to Jericho. And she lives among the Israelites to this day.
At that time Joshua invoked this curse: