Quotes about City
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
- Joshua 6:1
Have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.
- Joshua 6:4
And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
- Joshua 6:7
So he had the ark of the LORD carried around the city, circling it once. And the people returned to the camp and spent the night there.
- Joshua 6:11
Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.
- Joshua 6:15
After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
- Joshua 6:16
Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- Joshua 6:17
At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.
- Joshua 6:21
Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.
- Joshua 6:24
At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
- Joshua 6:26
with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
- Joshua 8:4
Then I and all the troops with me will advance on the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.
- Joshua 8:5