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Book of Joshua, Chapter 6

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Chapter 6 of Joshua—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Now Jerʹi·cho was tightly shut up because of the sons of Israel, no one going out and no one entering.1
  2. ¶ And Jehovah went on to say to Joshua: “See, I have given Jerʹi·cho and its king, the valiant mighty men, into your hand.2
  3. And all YOU men of war must march round the city, going round[a] the city once. That is the way you should do for six days.
  4. And seven priests should carry seven rams’ horns, before the Ark, and on the seventh day YOU should march round the city seven times and the priests should blow the horns.3
  5. And it must occur that when they sound with the horn of the ram, when YOU hear the sound of the horn,[b] all the people should shout a great war cry;4 and the wall of the city must fall down flat,5 and the people must go up, each one straight before him.”
  6. ¶ Accordingly Joshua the son of Nun called the priests6 and said to them: “Take up the ark of the covenant,7 and seven priests should carry seven rams’ horns before the ark8 of Jehovah.”
  7. And he[c] went on to say to the people: “Pass on and march round the city, and the war-equipped force9 should pass on ahead of the ark of Jehovah.”
  8. So it came about just as Joshua said to the people; and seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before Jehovah passed on and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of Jehovah was following them.
  9. And the war-equipped force was going ahead of the priests blowing the horns, while the rear guard10 was following the Ark with a continual blowing[d] on the horns.
  10. ¶ Now Joshua had commanded the people,11 saying: “YOU must neither shout nor let YOUR voices be heard, and no word should come out of YOUR mouths until the day when I say to YOU, ‘Shout!’ Then YOU must shout.”12
  11. And he had the ark of Jehovah go marching round the city, going round once, after which they went to the camp and stayed overnight in the camp.
  12. ¶ Then Joshua got up early in the morning,13 and the priests went carrying the ark14 of Jehovah,
  13. and seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before the ark of Jehovah were walking, continually blowing the horns, and the war-equipped force was walking ahead of them, while the rear guard was following the ark of Jehovah with a continual blowing on the horns.15
  14. And they went marching round the city on the second day once, after which they returned to the camp. That was the way they did for six days.16
  15. ¶ And it came about on the seventh day that they proceeded to get up early, as soon as the dawn ascended, and they went marching round the city in this manner seven times. Just on that day they marched round the city seven times.17
  16. And it came about on the seventh time that the priests blew the horns, and Joshua proceeded to say to the people: “Shout;18 for Jehovah has given YOU the city.19
  17. And the city must become a thing devoted to destruction;[e]20 it with everything that is in it belongs to Jehovah. Only Raʹhab21 the prostitute may keep on living, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent out.22
  18. As for YOU people, only keep away from the thing devoted to destruction,23 for fear YOU may get a desire[f]24 and YOU do take some of the thing devoted to destruction25 and do constitute the camp of Israel a thing devoted to destruction and bring ostracism upon it.26
  19. But all the silver and the gold and the articles of copper and iron are something holy to Jehovah.27 Into the treasure of Jehovah it should go.”28
  20. ¶ Then the people shouted, when they proceeded to blow the horns.29 And it came about that as soon as the people heard the sound of the horn and the people began to shout a great war cry, then the wall began to fall down flat.30 After that the people went up into the city, each one straight before him, and captured the city.
  21. And they went devoting all that was in the city, from man to woman, from young man to old man and to bull and sheep and ass, to destruction by the edge of the sword.31
  22. ¶ And to the two men who had done the spying on the land, Joshua said: “Go into the house of the woman, the prostitute, and bring out of there the woman and all who belong to her, just as YOU have sworn to her.”32
  23. So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Raʹhab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all who belonged to her, yes, all her family relationship they brought out;33 and they proceeded to set them down outside the camp of Israel.
  24. ¶ And they burned the city with fire and everything that was in it.34 Only the silver and the gold and the articles of copper and iron they gave to the treasure of Jehovah’s house.35
  25. And Raʹhab the prostitute and the household of her father and all who belonged to her, Joshua preserved alive;36 and she dwells in the midst of Israel down to this day,37 because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent out to spy on Jerʹi·cho.38
  26. ¶ Then Joshua had an oath pronounced at that particular time, saying: “Cursed may the man be before Jehovah who gets up and does build this city, even Jerʹi·cho. At the forfeit of his firstborn let him lay the foundation of it, and at the forfeit of his youngest let him put up its doors.”39
  27. ¶ So Jehovah proved to be with Joshua,40 and his fame came to be in all the earth.41

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Going round.” In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time.
  2. ^ Or, “the shofar.” Heb., hash·shoh·pharʹ.
  3. ^ “He,” TSyVg; M, “they.”
  4. ^ “With a continual blowing.” In Heb. these words are two verbs in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time.
  5. ^ Or, “a doomed thing.”
  6. ^ “For fear you may get a desire,” in harmony with LXX, which reads: “that, setting your mind on [it], (you yourselves may not take)”; M, “for fear you may devote [it] to destruction.”

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Jos 2:9
  2. ^ Nu 14:9; De 7:24; Jg 11:24; Ne 9:24
  3. ^ Jg 3:27; 7:22; 2Sa 2:28; Zp 1:16
  4. ^ Je 50:15; Ho 5:8
  5. ^ Heb 11:30
  6. ^ De 20:2
  7. ^ De 31:25
  8. ^ Nu 4:15
  9. ^ Nu 10:14, 18, 22; Jos 1:14; 4:13
  10. ^ Nu 10:25
  11. ^ De 34:9
  12. ^ Jos 1:18
  13. ^ Jos 3:1
  14. ^ Nu 3:31; 4:15; De 31:9; 1Ch 15:2
  15. ^ Jos 6:4
  16. ^ Jos 6:3
  17. ^ Jos 6:4
  18. ^ Jos 6:5, 10; 2Ch 13:15
  19. ^ De 9:1; Jos 6:1
  20. ^ Le 27:28; Nu 21:3; De 7:2; 20:16
  21. ^ Jos 2:1; Mt 1:5; Heb 11:31
  22. ^ Ge 12:3; Jos 2:4, 6; Mt 25:40; Heb 6:10; Jm 2:25
  23. ^ De 7:26
  24. ^ De 13:17; Jos 7:21; Heb 13:5
  25. ^ Jos 7:11
  26. ^ Jos 7:25; 1Ch 2:7
  27. ^ Nu 31:22
  28. ^ Jos 6:24; 2Sa 8:11; 1Ki 7:51; 1Ch 18:11
  29. ^ Jos 6:4, 16
  30. ^ Jos 6:5; Heb 11:30
  31. ^ Le 27:29; De 7:2; 20:16; 1Sa 15:3
  32. ^ Jos 2:14; Heb 11:31
  33. ^ Jos 2:13, 18
  34. ^ De 13:16
  35. ^ Jos 6:19
  36. ^ Jos 2:14; 6:17, 22
  37. ^ Mt 1:5
  38. ^ Heb 6:10; Jm 2:25
  39. ^ 1Ki 16:34
  40. ^ De 31:6; Jos 1:5; Ro 8:31
  41. ^ Jos 9:1, 9

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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