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Joshua 5:1-6:27

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Joshua 5:1-6:27

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This song belongs to the Joshua collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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Joshua
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Joshua
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[Intro] Seven priests. Seven horns. Seven days. One wall. [Verse 1] We were the sons born in the waste. Our fathers fell along the way. At Gilgal came the knives of flint and we lay healing in the tents for days. We kept the Passover on the plain and ate the parched grain of the land. The morning after, no more manna. Only dew upon the sand. [Pre-Chorus] A man stood near the city with a sword already drawn. Joshua asked him, whose? No. I lead the armies of the LORD. This ground is holy. Take off your shoes. [Chorus] Seven days and seven horns, seven times around the wall. Hold your tongue and hold the line, seven circuits, that's all. On the seventh circuit, shout, and watch the city fall. [Verse 2] Armed men first, then seven priests, then the ark upon their backs, then the rest of us behind them and the rearguard in our tracks. Once around, then back to camp. Six days the same. No word. Only horns and feet and breathing and a city on the wall that heard. [Chorus] Seven days and seven horns, seven times around the wall. Hold your tongue and hold the line, seven circuits, that's all. On the seventh circuit, shout, and watch the city fall. [Bridge] Seventh day, before the light. One. Two. Three. We don't stop. Four. Five. Six. The horns go long. Seven. Now. And the dust goes up. [Verse 3] The wall went down beneath itself and every man went straight ahead. But one house in the wall was spared, the window with the cord of red. The two who lay beneath her flax went in and brought her down, her father, mother, brothers, all, before the fire took the town. [Final Chorus] Seven days and seven horns, seven times around the wall. Hold your tongue and hold the line, seven circuits, that's all. On the seventh circuit, shout, and watch the city fall. And one red window. That was all. [Outro] Six days of silence. One day of sound. And the walls came down.

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Joshua 5: Before the siege, the covenant

The western kings have lost heart, yet Israel's first acts in the land are not attacks. The wilderness-born generation is circumcised and waits in camp to recover, placing covenant identity ahead of immediate military advantage. Israel then keeps Passover on the plains of Jericho and eats the produce of Canaan. Manna ceases without crisis because the people are no longer wandering through a place where daily wilderness provision is needed. The chapter ends by changing Joshua's own perspective before Jericho is confronted. An armed figure identifies himself as captain of the LORD's host, and Joshua's question about sides gives way to his own posture as a servant receiving orders on holy ground. The sequence is deliberate. Before siege comes covenant renewal, before continued provision comes ordinary food from the land, and before Joshua commands the next battle he must recognize a command higher than his own.

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Joshua 6: Jericho falls, and one household is brought out

Jericho is tightly shut, but God speaks of the city as already given before Israel begins its strange seven-day procession. Priests, trumpets, the ark, armed men, a rear guard, controlled silence, and a timed shout make obedience more visible than conventional siegecraft. Before the wall falls, Joshua also defines what the victory will mean. The city is under a ban, Rahab's household is protected under the earlier oath, and precious metals belong to the LORD's treasury rather than to private soldiers. When the wall collapses, the account records both the severe destruction of Jericho and the deliberate rescue of Rahab and her family. The spies who once depended on her now bring her out. The city is burned, the reserved metals are deposited, and Joshua pronounces a curse on anyone who rebuilds Jericho. The chapter closes with Joshua's growing fame, while the warning about banned goods already points toward trouble inside Israel's own camp.

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