Joshua 6:15-27

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁵ Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times; only on that day they marched around the city seven times. ¹⁶ At the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “^(A)Shout! For the Lord has given you the city. ¹⁷ The city shall be ^(B)under the ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord; only Rahab the harlot ^[a]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 under the ban, so that you do not ^[b]covet them and ^(C)take some of the things under the ban, and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it. ^19 (D)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]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]flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ^[e]ahead, and they took the city. ^21 (F)They ^[f]utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

²² Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “^(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)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 ^[g]house of the Lord. ²⁵ However, ^(J)Rahab the harlot and her father’s household and all she had, Joshua ^[h]spared; 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 take an oath at that time, saying, “^(L)Cursed before the Lord 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)the Lord was with Joshua, and his ^(N)fame was in all the land.