Joshua 6:20-27

Good News Translation

²⁰^(A)So the priests blew the trumpets. As soon as the people heard it, they gave a loud shout, and the walls collapsed. Then all the army went straight up the hill into the city and captured it. ²¹With their swords they killed everyone in the city, men and women, young and old. They also killed the cattle, sheep, and donkeys.

²²Joshua then told the two men who had served as spies, “Go into the prostitute's house, and bring her and her family out, as you promised her.” ²³So they went and brought Rahab out, along with her father and mother, her brothers, and the rest of her family. They took them all, family and slaves, to safety near the Israelite camp. ²⁴Then they set fire to the city and burned it to the ground, along with everything in it, except the things made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron, which they took and put in the Lord's treasury. ²⁵^(B)But Joshua spared the lives of the prostitute Rahab and all her relatives, because she had hidden the two spies that he had sent to Jericho. (Her descendants have lived in Israel to this day.)

²⁶^(C)At this time Joshua issued a solemn warning: “Anyone who tries to rebuild the city of Jericho will be under the Lord's curse.

Whoever lays the foundation will lose his oldest son;
Whoever builds the gates will lose his youngest.”

²⁷So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread through the whole country.

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Joshua 6:20-27

New International Version

²⁰When the trumpets sounded,^(A) the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout,^(B) the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.^(C) ²¹They devoted^(D) the city to the Lord and destroyed^(E) with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

²²Joshua said to the two men^(F) who had spied out^(G) the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.^(H)” ²³So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her.^(I) They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

²⁴Then they burned the whole city^(J) and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron^(K) into the treasury of the Lord’s house.^(L) ²⁵But Joshua spared^(M) Rahab the prostitute,^(N) with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho^(O)—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.