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Early the next morning, Joshua had the priests take up the ark of the LORD. (Joshua 6, 12)
The seventh time around, the priests blew the horns and Joshua said to the people, "Now shout, for the LORD has given you the city (Joshua 6, 16)
Joshua directed the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's house and bring out the woman with all her kin, as you swore to her you would do." (Joshua 6, 22)
Because Rahab the harlot had hidden the messengers whom Joshua had sent to reconnoiter Jericho, Joshua spared her with her family and all her kin, who continue in the midst of Israel to this day. (Joshua 6, 25)
On that occasion Joshua imposed the oath: Cursed before the LORD be the man who attempts to rebuild this city, Jericho. He shall lose his first-born when he lays its foundation, and he shall lose his youngest son when he sets up its gates. (Joshua 6, 26)
Thus the LORD was with Joshua so that his fame spread throughout the land. (Joshua 6, 27)
Joshua next sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Bethel on its eastern side, with instructions to go up and reconnoiter the land. When they had explored Ai, (Joshua 7, 2)
they returned to Joshua and advised, "Do not send all the people up; if only about two or three thousand go up, they can overcome Ai. The enemy there are few; you need not call for an effort from all the people." (Joshua 7, 3)
About three thousand of the people made the attack, but they were defeated by those at Ai, (Joshua 7, 4)
who killed some thirty-six of them. They pressed them back across the clearing in front of the city gate till they broke ranks, and defeated them finally on the descent, so that the confidence of the people melted away like water. (Joshua 7, 5)
Joshua, together with the elders of Israel, rent his garments and lay prostrate before the ark of the LORD until evening; and they threw dust on their heads. (Joshua 7, 6)
"Alas, O Lord GOD," Joshua prayed, "why did you ever allow this people to pass over the Jordan, delivering us into the power of the Amorites, that they might destroy us? Would that we had been content to dwell on the other side of the Jordan. (Joshua 7, 7)
