Joshua 6:12-20

New American Standard Bible

¹² Now Joshua got up early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. ¹³ Then ^(A)the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams’ horns in front of the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went ahead of them, and ^(B)the rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, while they continued to blow the trumpets. ¹⁴ So the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp; they did the same for six days.

¹⁵ Then on the seventh day they got up early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same way seven times; only on that day did they march around the city seven times. ¹⁶ And at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “^(C)Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. ¹⁷ But the city shall be ^(D)designated for ^[a]destruction, it and everything that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the prostitute ^[b]and all who are with her in the house shall live, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸ But as for you, only keep yourselves from the things designated for destruction, so that you do not covet them and ^(E)take some of the designated things, and turn the camp of Israel into something designated for destruction and bring disaster on it. ^19 (F)But all the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord.” ²⁰ So the people shouted, and ^[c]the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the ^(G)wall fell down ^[d]flat, so that the people went up into the city, everyone straight ^[e]ahead, and they took the city.