Joshua:3-4
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Joshua:3:1 @
Now it came about when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west ,
and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea ,
heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until they had crossed ,
that their hearts melted ,
and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel .
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Joshua:3:2 @
At that time the LORD said to Joshua , "
Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time ."
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Joshua:3:3 @
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth .
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Joshua:3:4 @
This is the reason why Joshua circumcised them -
all the people who came out of Egypt who were males ,
all the men of war ,
died in the wilderness along the way after they came out of Egypt .
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Joshua:3:5 @
For all the people who came out were circumcised ,
but all the people who were born in the wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised .
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Joshua:3:6 @
For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness ,
until all the nation ,
that is ,
the men of war who came out of Egypt ,
perished because they did not listen to the voice of the LORD ,
to whom the LORD had sworn that He would not let them see the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give us ,
a land flowing with milk and honey .
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Joshua:3:7 @
Their children whom He raised up in their place ,
Joshua circumcised ;
for they were uncircumcised ,
because they had not circumcised them along the way .
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Joshua:3:8 @
Now when they had finished circumcising all the nation ,
they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed .
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Joshua:3:9 @
Then the LORD said to Joshua , "
Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you ."
So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day .
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Joshua:3:10 @
While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho .
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Joshua:3:11 @
On the day after the Passover ,
on that very day ,
they ate some of the produce of the land ,
unleavened cakes and parched grain .
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Joshua:3:12 @
The manna ceased on the day after they had eaten some of the produce of the land ,
so that the sons of Israel no longer had manna ,
but they ate some of the yield of the land of Canaan during that year .
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Joshua:3:13 @
Now it came about when Joshua was by Jericho ,
that he lifted up his eyes and looked ,
and behold ,
a man was standing 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 ?"
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Joshua:3:14 @
He said , "
No ;
rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD ."
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth ,
and bowed down ,
and said to him , "
What has my lord to say to his servant ?"
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Joshua:3:15 @
The captain of the LORD '
S host said to Joshua , "
Remove your sandals from your feet ,
for the place where you are standing is holy ."
And Joshua did so .
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Joshua:4:1 @
Now Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of Israel ;
no one went out and no one came in .
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Joshua:4:2 @
The LORD said to Joshua , "
See ,
I have given Jericho into your hand ,
with its king and the valiant warriors .
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Joshua:4:3 " @
You shall march around the city ,
all the men of war circling the city once .
You shall do so for six days .
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Joshua:4:4 " @
Also seven priests shall carry seven trumpets of rams '
horns before the ark ;
then on the seventh day you shall march around the city seven times ,
and the priests shall blow the trumpets .
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Joshua:4:5 " @
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 will fall down flat ,
and the people will go up every man straight ahead ."
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Joshua:4:6 @
So Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them , "
Take up the ark of the covenant ,
and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams '
horns before the ark of the LORD ."
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Joshua:4:7 @
Then he said to the people , "
Go forward ,
and march around the city ,
and let the armed men go on before the ark of the LORD ."
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Joshua:4:8 @
And it was so ,
that when Joshua had spoken to the people ,
the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams '
horns before the LORD went forward and blew the trumpets ;
and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them .
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Joshua:4:9 @
The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets ,
and the rear guard came after the ark ,
while they continued to blow the trumpets .
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Joshua:4:10 @
But Joshua commanded the people ,
saying , "
You shall not shout nor let your voice be heard nor let a word proceed out of your mouth ,
until the day I tell you , '
Shout !'
Then you shall shout !"
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Joshua:4:11 @
So he had the ark of the LORD taken around the city ,
circling it once ;
then they came into the camp and spent the night in the camp .
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Joshua:4:12 @
Now Joshua rose early in the morning ,
and the priests took up the ark of the LORD .
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Joshua:4:13 @
The seven priests carrying 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 and the rear guard came after the ark of the LORD ,
while they continued to blow the trumpets .
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Joshua:4:14 @
Thus the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp ;
they did so for six days .
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Joshua:4:15 @
Then on the seventh day they rose early at the dawning of the day and marched around the city in the same manner seven times ;
only on that day they marched around the city seven times .
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Joshua:4:16 @
At the seventh time ,
when the priests blew the trumpets ,
Joshua said to the people , "
Shout !
For the LORD has given you the city .
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Joshua:4:17 " @
The city shall be under the ban ,
it and all that is in it belongs to the LORD ;
only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in the house shall live ,
because she hid the messengers whom we sent .
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Joshua:4:18 " @
But as for you ,
only keep yourselves from the things under the ban ,
so that you do not covet them and take some of the things under the ban ,
and make the camp of Israel accursed and bring trouble on it .
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Joshua:4:19 " @
But all the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD ;
they shall go into the treasury of the LORD ."
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Joshua:4:20 @
So the people shouted ,
and priests blew the trumpets ;
and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet ,
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 ahead ,
and they took the city .
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Joshua:4:21 @
They utterly destroyed everything in the city ,
both man and woman ,
young and old ,
and ox and sheep and donkey ,
with the edge of the sword .
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Joshua:4:22 @
Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land , "
Go into the harlot '
s house and bring the woman and all she has out of there ,
as you have sworn to her ."
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Joshua:4:23 @
So the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all she had ;
they also brought out all her relatives and placed them outside the camp of Israel .
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Joshua:4:24 @
They burned the city with fire ,
and all that was in it .
Only the silver and gold ,
and articles of bronze and iron ,
they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD .
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Joshua:4:25 @
However ,
Rahab the harlot and her father '
s household and all she had ,
Joshua spared ;
and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day ,
for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho .
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Joshua:4:26 @
Then Joshua made them take an oath at that time ,
saying , "
Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and builds this city Jericho ;
with the loss of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation ,
and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set up its gates ."
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Joshua:4:27 @
So the LORD was with Joshua ,
and his fame was in all the land .
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Joshua:5:1 @
But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfully in regard to the things under the ban ,
for Achan ,
the son of Carmi ,
the son of Zabdi ,
the son of Zerah ,
from the tribe of Judah ,
took some of the things under the ban ,
therefore the anger of the LORD burned against the sons of Israel .