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Joshua Chapter 6

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JOSHUA

Joshua 6

1Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:14, Joshua 2:24, Joshua 2:9, Joshua 2:14
2The Lord said to Joshua, "Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
Deuteronomy 7:24, Deuteronomy 7:24, Joshua 8:1, Joshua 8:1, Joshua 2:24
3All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.
2 Corinthians 4:7, 2 Corinthians 4:7, Numbers 14:9, Numbers 14:9, Joshua 6:7
4Seven 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.
Revelation 16:1, 2 Chronicles 20:17, Revelation 16:1, 2 Chronicles 20:17, Revelation 8:2
5It 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."
2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, Hebrews 11:30
6Joshua 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."
Deuteronomy 20:2, Deuteronomy 20:4, Acts 9:1, Deuteronomy 20:2, Deuteronomy 20:4
7They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before the Lord's ark."
Joshua 4:13, Joshua 4:13, Joshua 1:14, Joshua 6:3, Joshua 1:14
8It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, 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.
Numbers 32:20, Numbers 32:20, Joshua 6:3, Joshua 6:4, Joshua 6:3
9The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.
Joshua 6:13, Joshua 6:13, Isaiah 58:8, Numbers 10:25, Isaiah 58:8
10Joshua 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."
Matthew 12:19, Isaiah 42:2, Luke 24:49, Matthew 12:19, Isaiah 42:2
11So he caused the ark of the Lord to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.
Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:8, Joshua 3:1, Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:8
13The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of the Lord. The trumpets sounded as they went.
Galatians 6:9, Galatians 6:9, Matthew 24:13, Matthew 24:13, 1 Chronicles 15:26
14The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.
Joshua 6:11, Joshua 6:15, Joshua 6:3, Joshua 6:11, Joshua 6:15
15It 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.
Psalms 119:147, Psalms 119:147, 2 Peter 1:19, Matthew 28:1, 2 Peter 1:19
16It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the Lord has given you the city!
Joshua 6:5, 2 Chronicles 20:22, 2 Chronicles 20:23, Judges 7:20, Judges 7:22
17The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
Deuteronomy 20:17, Deuteronomy 20:17, Micah 4:13, James 2:25, Micah 4:13
18But 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.
1 John 5:21, 1 John 5:21, Ephesians 5:11, Ephesians 5:11, Joshua 7:11
19But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to the Lord. They shall come into the Lord's treasury."
1 Chronicles 26:20, Matthew 27:6, 1 Chronicles 26:20, Matthew 27:6, Mark 12:41
20So 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.
Hebrews 11:30, Hebrews 11:30, 2 Corinthians 10:4, 2 Corinthians 10:5, 2 Corinthians 10:4
21They 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.
Jeremiah 48:18, Psalms 137:8, Psalms 137:9, Jeremiah 48:18, Psalms 137:8
22Joshua 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."
Hebrews 11:31, Hebrews 11:31, Joshua 6:17, Ezekiel 17:18, Ezekiel 17:19
23The 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.
Hebrews 11:7, Hebrews 11:7, Ephesians 2:12, Genesis 18:24, Numbers 31:19
24They 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 the Lord's house.
Joshua 8:28, Joshua 8:28, 2 Kings 25:9, Revelation 17:16, 2 Kings 25:9
25But 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.
Hebrews 11:31, Hebrews 11:31, James 2:25, Joshua 2:6, Judges 1:24
26Joshua commanded them with an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the Lord, 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."
1 Kings 16:34, 1 Kings 16:34, Acts 19:13, Acts 19:13, Numbers 5:19
27So the Lord was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
Joshua 1:5, Joshua 9:3, Joshua 1:5, Joshua 9:3, Joshua 9:9

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