12-13. Joshua got up early the next morning, and for the second time the priests and soldiers marched round the city in the same order as the day before: first, the advance guard; next, the seven priests blowing the seven trumpets; then, the priests carrying the Lord's Covenant Box; and finally, the rearguard. All this time the trumpets were sounding.
14. On this second day they again marched round the city once and then returned to camp. They did this for six days.
15. On the seventh day they got up at daybreak and marched seven times round the city in the same way — this was the only day that they marched round it seven times.
16. The seventh time round, when the priests were about to sound the trumpets, Joshua ordered the people to shout, and he said, “The Lord has given you the city!
17. The city and everything in it must be totally destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only the prostitute Rahab and her household will be spared, because she hid our spies.
18. But you are not to take anything that is to be destroyed; if you do, you will bring trouble and destruction on the Israelite camp.
19. Everything made of silver, gold, bronze, or iron is set apart for the Lord. It is to be put in the Lord's treasury.”
20. So the priests blew the trumpets. As soon as the people heard it, they gave a loud shout, and the walls collapsed. Then all the army went straight up the hill into the city and captured it.
21. With their swords they killed everyone in the city, men and women, young and old. They also killed the cattle, sheep, and donkeys.
22. Joshua then told the two men who had served as spies, “Go into the prostitute's house and bring her and her family out, as you promised her.”
23. So they went and brought Rahab out, along with her father and mother, her brothers, and the rest of her family. They took them all, family and slaves, to safety near the Israelite camp.
24. Then they set fire to the city and burnt it to the ground, along with everything in it, except the things made of gold, silver, bronze, and iron, which they took and put in the Lord's treasury.
25. But Joshua spared the lives of the prostitute Rahab and all her relatives, because she had hidden the two spies that he had sent to Jericho. (Her descendants have lived in Israel to this day.)
26. At that time Joshua issued a solemn warning: “Anyone who tries to rebuild the city of Jericho will be under the Lord's curse.Whoever lays the foundation will lose his eldest son;Whoever builds the gates will lose his youngest.”
27. So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread through the whole country.