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When there is a long blast on the special ram’s horn of jubilee, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn,[a] all the people shall shout with a loud war cry. Then the wall of the city will collapse on itself, and the people[b] will go up into the city, one man after another.”

The Fall of Jericho

So Joshua son of Nun called for the priests and said to them, “Lift up the Ark of the Covenant, and seven priests shall carry seven special ram’s horns in front of the Ark of the Lord.” Then he said to the people, “Move out. March around the city. The armed contingent shall march in front of the Ark of the Lord.”

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:5 Literally when there is a long blast of the horn of the jubilee, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn. These may be two parallel statements referring to one type of instrument.
  2. Joshua 6:5 In Joshua the word people often refers to the rank and file of the army, not to the whole nation. The army was not a standing professional army, but more like the United States National Guard or Reserves.

When you hear them sound a long blast(A) on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout;(B) then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in.”

So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it.”(C) And he ordered the army, “Advance(D)! March around the city, with an armed guard going ahead of the ark(E) of the Lord.”

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