Joshua 6:20

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town.

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Referenced Verses

  • Heb 11:30 : 30 By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.
  • Josh 6:5 : 5 And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.
  • 2 Cor 10:4-5 : 4 (For the arms with which we are fighting are not those of the flesh, but are strong before God for the destruction of high places); 5 Putting an end to reasonings, and every high thing which is lifted up against the knowledge of God, and causing every thought to come under the authority of Christ;

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  • Josh 6:1-11
    11 verses
    92%

    1 (Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)

    2 And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your hands Jericho with its king and all its men of war.

    3 Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the town, going all round it once. Do this for six days.

    4 And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.

    5 And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

    6 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord.

    7 And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.

    8 So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven priests with their seven horns went forward before the Lord, blowing on their horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement went after them.

    9 And the armed men went before the priests who were blowing the horns, and the mass of the people went after the ark, blowing their horns.

    10 And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You will give no cry, and make no sound, and let no word go out of your mouth till the day when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a loud cry.

    11 So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.

  • Josh 6:13-16
    4 verses
    85%

    13 And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns.

    14 The second day they went all round the town once, and then went back to their tents: and so they did for six days.

    15 Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times.

    16 And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests' horns, Joshua said to the people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord has given you the town.

  • 21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men and women, young and old, ox and sheep and ass, they put to death without mercy.

  • 30 By faith the walls of Jericho came down, after they had been circled for seven days.

  • 24 Then, after burning up the town and everything in it, they put the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron into the store-house of the Lord's house.

  • 20 Wherever you may be when the horn is sounded, come here to us; our God will be fighting for us.

  • 22 And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.

  • 1 Then crying out in my hearing in a loud voice, he said, Let the overseers of the town come near, every man armed.

  • 14 And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

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    14 And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.

    15 And the men of Judah gave a loud cry; and at their cry, God put fear into Jeroboam and all Israel before Abijah and Judah.

  • 10 And the walls round Jerusalem were broken down by the Chaldaean army which was with the captain.

  • 20 So the three bands all gave a loud note on their horns, and when the vessels had been broken, they took the flaming branches in their left hands, and the horns in their right hands ready for blowing, crying out, For the Lord and for Gideon.

  • 18 These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;

  • 19 But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.

  • 38 And the other band of those who gave praise went to the left, and I went after them with half the people, on the wall, over the tower of the ovens, as far as the wide wall;

  • 28 So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.

  • 30 And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands of Israel; and he put it and every person in it to the sword, till their destruction was complete; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

  • 15 And Joab and his men got him shut up in Abel of Beth-maacah, and put up an earthwork against the town: and all Joab's men did their best to get the wall broken down.

  • 13 So that in the ears of the people the cry of joy was mixed with the sound of weeping; for the cries of the people were loud and came to the ears of those who were a long way off.

  • 27 And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.

  • 4 So an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and the king went by the way of the Arabah.

  • 1 And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.

  • 18 Every builder was working with his sword at his side. And by my side was a man for sounding the horn.

  • 16 And all the people in Ai came together to go after them; and they went after Joshua, moving away from the town.

  • 8 And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the Lord has said: see, I have given you your orders.

  • 5 And I and all the people with me will come near the town, and when they come out against us as they did before, we will go in flight from them;

  • 7 Then an opening was made in the wall of the town, and all the men of war went in flight out of the town by night through the doorway between the two walls which was by the king's garden; (now the Chaldaeans were stationed round the town:) and they went by the way of the Arabah.

  • 18 At the sound of my horn, and the horns of those who are with me, let your horns be sounded all round the tents, and say, For the Lord and for Gideon.