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19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy unto Jehovah: they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah. 20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down [a]flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. 21 And they [b]utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:20 Hebrew in its place.
  2. Joshua 6:21 Hebrew devoted.

19 All the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron(A) are sacred to the Lord and must go into his treasury.”

20 When the trumpets sounded,(B) the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout,(C) the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city.(D) 21 They devoted(E) the city to the Lord and destroyed(F) with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

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