Popular Bible Verses from Y'hoshua (Jos) 6

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ADONAI said to Y’hoshua, “I have handed Yericho over to you, including its king and his warriors.

Then they are to blow a long blast on the shofar. On hearing the sound of the shofar, all the people are to shout as loudly as they can; and the wall of the city will fall down flat. Then the people are to go up into the city, each one straight from where he stands.”

You are to encircle the city with all your soldiers and march around it once. Do this for six days.

Seven cohanim are to carry seven shofars in front of the ark. On the seventh day you are to march around the city seven times, and the cohanim will blow the shofars.

Yericho had completely barricaded its gates against the people of Isra’el — no one left, and no one entered.

The seventh time, when the cohanim blew on their shofars, Y’hoshua said to the people, “Shout! because ADONAI has given you the city!

But the city and everything in it is to be set aside for ADONAI and therefore to be destroyed completely; only Rachav the prostitute is to be spared, she and everyone with her in her house, because she hid the messengers we sent.