19 But all silver, and gold, and vessels of brass, and iron shall be [a]consecrate unto the Lord, and shall come into the Lord’s treasury.

20 So the people shouted, when they had blown trumpets: for when the people had heard the sound of the trumpets, they shouted with a great shout: and the (A)wall fell down flat: so the people went up into the city, every man straight before him: and they took the city.

21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the cities both man and woman, young, and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass with the edge of the sword.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 6:19 And therefore cannot be put to any private use, but must be first molten, and then serve for the Tabernacle.

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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