Joshua 6:9

World English Bible (2000)

The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the ark went after them. The trumpets sounded as they went.

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  • Josh 6:13 : 13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they went.
  • Num 10:25 : 25 The standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rear guard of all the camps, set forward according to their armies. Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai was over his army.
  • Isa 58:8 : 8 Then your light shall break forth as the morning, and your healing shall spring forth speedily; and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of Yahweh shall be your rear guard.
  • Isa 52:11-12 : 11 Depart, depart, go out from there, touch no unclean thing! Go out of the midst of her! Cleanse yourselves, you who bear the vessels of Yahweh. 12 For you shall not go out in haste, neither shall you go by flight: for Yahweh will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rear guard.

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  • Josh 6:10-16
    7 verses
    94%

    10 Joshua commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout."

    11 So he caused the ark of Yahweh to go around the city, going about it once. Then they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

    12 Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.

    13 The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them. The rear guard came after the ark of Yahweh. The trumpets sounded as they went.

    14 The second day they marched around the city once, and returned into the camp. They did this six days.

    15 It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

    16 It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

  • Josh 6:3-8
    6 verses
    90%

    3 All your men of war shall march around the city, going around the city once. You shall do this six days.

    4 Seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark. On the seventh day, you shall march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.

    5 It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man straight before him."

    6 Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh."

    7 They said to the people, "Advance! March around the city, and let the armed men pass on before Yahweh's ark."

    8 It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh advanced, and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.

  • Josh 3:6
    80%

    6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people." They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

  • 1 Chr 15:24
    77%

    24 Shebaniah, and Joshaphat, and Nethanel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.

  • Josh 6:20
    76%

    20 So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

  • 1 Chr 16:6
    76%

    6 and Benaiah and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually, before the ark of the covenant of God.

  • Josh 4:10-13
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    76%

    10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hurried and passed over.

    11 It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.

    12 The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them.

    13 About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.

  • Josh 3:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14 It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

    15 and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

  • Josh 3:2-3
    2 verses
    75%

    2 It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

    3 and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.

  • 2 Chr 13:14
    74%

    14 When Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried to Yahweh, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

  • Josh 3:11
    73%

    11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

  • Num 10:5-6
    2 verses
    73%

    5 When you blow an alarm, the camps that lie on the east side shall go forward.

    6 When you blow an alarm the second time, the camps that lie on the south side shall go forward. They shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

  • 2 Sam 6:15
    72%

    15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

  • Josh 4:16-18
    3 verses
    72%

    16 "Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan."

    17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan!"

    18 It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up out of the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

  • Josh 3:8
    71%

    8 You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"

  • 2 Sam 6:13
    71%

    13 It was so, that, when those who bore the ark of Yahweh had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fattened calf.

  • Num 31:6
    71%

    6 Moses sent them, one thousand of every tribe, to the war, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the vessels of the sanctuary and the trumpets for the alarm in his hand.

  • 1 Chr 15:28
    71%

    28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

  • Josh 3:17
    70%

    17 The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.

  • Num 10:8-9
    2 verses
    70%

    8 "The sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets. This shall be to you for a statute forever throughout your generations.

    9 When you go to war in your land against the adversary who oppresses you, then you shall sound an alarm with the trumpets. Then you will be remembered before Yahweh your God, and you will be saved from your enemies.

  • 1 Sam 4:6
    70%

    6 When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, "What does the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews mean?" They understood that the ark of Yahweh had come into the camp.

  • Rev 8:6
    70%

    6 The seven angels who had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.

  • Judg 7:18
    70%

    18 When I blow the trumpet, I and all who are with me, then blow the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and shout, 'For Yahweh and for Gideon!'"

  • 2 Chr 5:11
    69%

    11 It happened, when the priests were come out of the holy place, (for all the priests who were present had sanctified themselves, and did not keep their divisions;

  • Judg 7:20
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    20 The three companies blew the trumpets, and broke the pitchers, and held the torches in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands with which to blow; and they shouted, "The sword of Yahweh and of Gideon!"

  • 2 Chr 13:12
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    12 Behold, God is with us at our head, and his priests with the trumpets of alarm to sound an alarm against you. Children of Israel, don't fight against Yahweh, the God of your fathers; for you shall not prosper."

  • Num 32:21
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    21 and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Yahweh, until he has driven out his enemies from before him,