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Now while the Israelites did this, and the Canaanites did not attack
them, but kept themselves quiet within their own walls, Joshua resolved
to besiege them; so on the first day of the feast [of the passover], the
priests carried the ark round about, with some part of the armed men to
be a guard to it. These priests went forward, blowing with their seven
trumpets; and exhorted the army to be of good courage, and went round about
the city, with the senate following them; and when the priests had only
blown with the trumpets, for they did nothing more at all, they returned
to the camp. And when they had done this for six days, on the seventh Joshua
gathered the armed men and all the people together, and told them these
good tidings, That the city should now be taken, since God would on that
day give it them, by the falling down of the walls, and this of their own
accord, and without their labor. However, he charged them to kill every
one they should take, and not to abstain from the slaughter of their enemies,
either for weariness or for pity, and not to fall on the spoil, and be
thereby diverted from pursuing their enemies as they ran away; but to destroy
all the animals, and to take nothing for their own peculiar advantage.
He commanded them also to bring together all the silver and gold, that
it might be set apart as first-fruits unto God out of this glorious exploit,
as having gotten them from the city they first took; only that they should
save Rahab and her kindred alive, because of the oath which the spies had
sworn to her.
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