Joshua 6:15-27

Legacy Standard Bible

¹⁵ Then it happened that on the seventh day they rose early at the ^[a]breaking of dawn and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. ¹⁶ Now it happened that on the seventh time, the priests blew the trumpets, and Joshua said to the people, “^(A)Shout! For Yahweh has given you the city. ¹⁷ And the city shall be ^(B)devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it belongs to Yahweh; only Rahab the harlot ^[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 devoted to destruction, lest as you are devoting them to destruction, you also ^(C)take some of the things devoted to destruction and make the camp of Israel devoted to destruction and bring trouble on it. ^19 (D)But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to Yahweh; they shall go into the treasury of Yahweh.” 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 ^(E)wall fell down ^[d]beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ^[e]ahead, and they took the city. ^21 (F)And they devoted to destruction everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

²² Now to the two men who had spied out the land, Joshua said, “^(G)Go into the harlot’s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as you have sworn to her.” ²³ So the young men who were spies went in and ^(H)brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had; they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel. ^24 (I)But they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold, and articles of bronze and iron, they put into the treasury of the ^[f]house of Yahweh. ²⁵ However, ^(J)Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua preserved alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, for ^(K)she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

²⁶ Then Joshua made them swear an oath at that time, saying, “^(L)Cursed before Yahweh is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates.” ²⁷ So ^(M)Yahweh was with Joshua, and the ^(N)report about him was in all the land.