5. Then they are to sound one long note. As soon as you hear it, all the people are to give a loud shout, and the city walls will collapse. Then the whole army will go straight into the city.”
6. Joshua called the priests and said to them, “Take the Covenant Box, and seven of you go in front of it, carrying trumpets.”
7. Then he ordered the people to start marching round the city, with an advance guard going on ahead of the Lord's Covenant Box.
10. But Joshua had ordered the people not to shout, not to say a word until he gave the order.
11. So he told this group of men to take the Lord's Covenant Box round the city once. Then they came back to camp and spent the night there.
14. On this second day they again marched round the city once and then returned to camp. They did this for six days.
15. On the seventh day they got up at daybreak and marched seven times round the city in the same way — this was the only day that they marched round it seven times.
16. The seventh time round, when the priests were about to sound the trumpets, Joshua ordered the people to shout, and he said, “The Lord has given you the city!
17. The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only the prostitute Rahab and her household will be spared, because she hid our spies.
18. But you are not to take anything that is to be destroyed; if you do, you will bring trouble and destruction on the Israelite camp.
19. Everything made of silver, gold, bronze, or iron is set apart for the Lord. It is to be put in the Lord's treasury.”