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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.
12 Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests again carried the Ark
of the Lord. 13 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. 14 On the second day they again marched
around the town once and returned to the camp. They followed this pattern for
six days.
15 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. 16 The seventh time around, as the priests sounded the long blast on their
horns, Joshua commanded the people,
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“Shout!
For the LORD has given you the town!
17 Jericho 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.
18 “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.
19 Everything made from silver, gold, bronze, or iron is sacred to the Lord and
must be brought into his treasury.”
20 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 Israelites charged
straight into the town and captured it. 21 They completely destroyed everything
in it with their swords—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep, goats,
and donkeys.
22 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.
24 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. 25 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.
26 At that time Joshua invoked this curse:
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