Joshua 5-6New King James Version (NKJV)
The Second Generation Circumcised
5 So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites
who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of
the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that
the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the
children of Israel until we[a] had crossed over, that
their heart melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the
children of Israel.
2 At that time
the Lord said to Joshua, “Make flint knives for yourself, and
circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time.” 3 So
Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the
hill of the foreskins.[b]4 And this is the
reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who
were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way,
after they had come out of Egypt. 5 For all the
people who came out had been circumcised, but all the people born in the
wilderness, on the way as they came out of Egypt, had not been
circumcised. 6 For the children of Israel walked
forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men
of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the
voice of the Lord—to whom the Lord swore that He would not show
them the land which the Lord had sworn to their fathers that He would
give us, “a land flowing with milk and honey.”[c] 7 Then
Joshua circumcised their sons whom He raised up in their
place; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on
the way.
8 So it was, when they had finished
circumcising all the people, that they stayed in their places in the camp till
they were healed. 9 Then the Lord said to
Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” Therefore
the name of the place is called Gilgal[d] to this day.
10 Now the children of Israel camped
in Gilgal, and kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight
on the plains of Jericho. 11 And they ate of the
produce of the land on the day after the Passover, unleavened bread and parched
grain, on the very same day. 12 Then the manna
ceased on the day after they had eaten the produce of the land; and the
children of Israel no longer had manna, but they ate the food of the land of
Canaan that year.
The Commander of the Army of the Lord
13 And it came to pass, when Joshua
was by Jericho, that he lifted his eyes and looked, and behold, a Man stood
opposite him with His sword drawn in His hand. And Joshua went to Him and said
to Him, “Are You for us or for our adversaries?”
14 So He said, “No, but as Commander
of the army of the Lord I have now come.”
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and
said to Him, “What does my Lord say to His servant?”
15 Then the Commander of
the Lord’s army said to Joshua, “Take your sandal off your foot, for the
place where you stand is holy.” And Joshua did so.
The Destruction of Jericho
6 Now Jericho was securely shut up because of
the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in. 2 And
the Lord said to Joshua: “See! I have given Jericho into your hand,
its king, and the mighty men of valor. 3 You
shall march around the city, all you men of war; you shall go
all around the city once. This you shall do six days. 4 And
seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark. But the
seventh day you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall
blow the trumpets. 5 It shall come to pass, when
they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when
you hear the sound of the trumpet, that all the people shall shout with a great
shout; then the wall of the city will fall down flat. And the people shall go
up every man straight before him.”
6 Then 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
the Lord.” 7 And he said to the people,
“Proceed, and march around the city, and let him who is armed advance before
the ark of the Lord.”
8 So it was, when Joshua had spoken
to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns
before the Lord advanced and blew the trumpets, and the ark of the
covenant of the Lord followed them. 9 The
armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard
came after the ark, while the priests continued blowing the
trumpets. 10 Now Joshua had commanded the people,
saying, “You shall not shout or make any noise with your voice, nor shall a
word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I say to you, ‘Shout!’ Then you
shall shout.” 11 So he had the ark of
the Lord circle the city, going around it once. Then
they came into the camp and lodged in the camp.
12 And Joshua rose early in the
morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord. 13 Then
seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams’ horns before the ark of
the Lord went on continually and blew with the trumpets. And the
armed men went before them. But the rear guard came after the ark of
the Lord, while the priests continued blowing the
trumpets. 14 And the second day they marched around
the city once and returned to the camp. So they did six days.
15 But it came to pass on the seventh
day that they rose early, about the dawning of the day, and marched around the
city seven times in the same manner. On that day only they marched around the
city seven times. 16 And the seventh time it
happened, when the priests blew the trumpets, that Joshua said to the people:
“Shout, for the Lord has given you the city! 17 Now
the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it and all
who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all
who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers
that we sent. 18 And you, by all means abstain from
the accursed things, lest you become accursed when you take of the accursed
things, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. 19 But
all the silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are consecrated
to the Lord; they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.”
20 So the people shouted when the
priests blew the trumpets. And it happened when the people heard the
sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall
fell down flat. Then the people went up into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city. 21 And they
utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and
woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
22 But Joshua had said to the two men
who had spied out the country, “Go into the harlot’s house, and from there
bring out the woman and all that she has, as you swore to her.” 23 And
the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her
mother, her brothers, and all that she had. So they brought out all her
relatives and left them outside the camp of Israel. 24 But
they burned the city and all that was in it with fire. Only
the silver and gold, and the vessels of bronze and iron, they put into the
treasury of the house of the Lord. 25 And
Joshua spared Rahab the harlot, her father’s household, and all that she had.
So she dwells in Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua
sent to spy out Jericho.
26 Then Joshua charged them at
that time, saying, “Cursed be the man before
the Lord who rises up and builds this city Jericho; he shall lay its
foundation with his firstborn, and with his youngest he shall set up its
gates.”
27 So the Lord was with
Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country.
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