May
12
Joshua
5, 6
Jos
5:1 It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond
the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by
the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan
from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, that
their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more,
because of the children of Israel.
Jos
5:2 At that time, Yahweh said to Joshua, "Make flint knives,
and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time."
Jos
5:3 Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children
of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Jos
5:4 This is the reason Joshua circumcised: all the people who came
out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the
wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Jos
5:5 For all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the
people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came out of
Egypt had not been circumcised.
Jos
5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were
consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice of Yahweh. Yahweh
swore to them that he wouldn't let them see the land which Yahweh
swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with
milk and honey.
Jos
5:7 Their children, whom he raised up in their place, were
circumcised by Joshua; for they were uncircumcised, because they had
not circumcised them on the way.
Jos
5:8 It happened, when they were done circumcising all the nation,
that they stayed in their places in the camp until they were healed.
Jos
5:9 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from off you." Therefore the name of that
place was called Gilgal, to this day.
Jos
5:10 The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the
Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains
of Jericho.
Jos
5:11 They ate unleavened cakes and parched grain of the produce of
the land on the next day after the Passover, in the same day.
Jos
5:12 The manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the
produce of the land. The children of Israel didn't have manna any
more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Jos
5:13 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his
eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his
sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are
you for us, or for our adversaries?"
Jos
5:14 He said, "No; but I have come now as commander of Yahweh's
army." Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and
said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
Jos
5:15 The prince of Yahweh's army said to Joshua, "Take your
shoes off of your feet; for the place on which you stand is holy."
Joshua did so.
Jos
6:1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of
Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
Jos
6:2 Yahweh said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into
your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
Jos
6:3 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around
the city once. You shall do this six days.
Jos
6:4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before
the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven
times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
Jos
6:5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's
horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people
shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall
down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."
Jos
6:6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them,
"Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."
Jos
6:7 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city,
and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."
Jos
6:8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven
priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh
advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh followed them.
Jos
6:9 The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and
the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
Jos
6:10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout,
nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of
your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."
Jos
6:11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going
about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Jos
6:12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the
ark of Yahweh.
Jos
6:13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns
before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets:
and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark
of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they went.
Jos
6:14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned
into the camp. They did this six days.
Jos
6:15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the
dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven
times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.
Jos
6:16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the
trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has
given you the city!
Jos
6:17 The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to
Yahweh. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are
with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Jos
6:18 But as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing,
lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so
would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
Jos
6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron,
are holy to Yahweh. They shall come into Yahweh's treasury."
Jos
6:20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It
happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the
people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so
that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him,
and they took the city.
Jos
6:21 They utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the
edge of the sword.
Jos
6:22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go
into the prostitute's house, and bring out from there the woman and
all that she has, as you swore to her."
Jos
6:23 The young men who were spies went in, and brought out Rahab
with her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had. They
also brought out all her relatives, and they set them outside of the
camp of Israel.
Jos
6:24 They burnt the city with fire, and all that was in it. Only
they put the silver, the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron
into the treasury of Yahweh's house.
Jos
6:25 But Rahab the prostitute, her father's household, and all that
she had, Joshua saved alive. She lived in the midst of Israel to this
day, because she hid the messengers, whom Joshua sent to spy out
Jericho.
Jos
6:26 Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying,
"Cursed be the man before Yahweh, who rises up and builds this
city Jericho. With the loss of his firstborn shall he lay its
foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son shall he set up its
gates."
Jos
6:27 So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.