Yoshua 6

Imetafsiriwa kutoka Kiebrania cha Kodeksi ya Leningrad ya Westminster. Gusa mstari kuona kwa nini unasomeka hivyo. Gusa herufi ndogo kusoma maelezo yake ya chini.

Baadhi ya sentensi za sura hii bado hazijatafsiriwa; zinaonyeshwa kwa Kiingereza, kwa rangi ya kijivu.

Haya ni maandishi ya Linganifu kwa mipangilio ya kawaida. Maelezo, sababu za kila mstari na mipangilio ya usomaji vinahitaji JavaScript..disputed-note .fn-pop-more { display: none; }

Jericho shut up tight

¹Now Jericho was shut up tight because of the Israelites. Nobody left the city and nobody entered it.

Marching around the city

²Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Look, I have handed Jericho over to you, along with its king and its strong warriors. ³All your fighting men are to march around the city, going around it once. Do this for six days. ⁴Seven priests are to carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day you are to march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the horns. ⁵When they sound a long blast on the ram’s horn and you hear the sound of the horn, all the people are to give a great shout. Then the city wall will collapse where it stands, and the people will go up into the city, each of them straight ahead.” ⁶So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Lift up the ark of the covenant. Seven priests are to go ahead of the ark of the LORD, carrying seven rams’ horns.” ⁷And he told the people, “Go forward and march around the city, with the armed men going on ahead of the ark of the LORD.” ⁸As soon as Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the LORD went forward blowing the horns, with the ark of the covenant of the LORD coming after them. ⁹The armed men went on ahead of the priests who were sounding the horns, and the rear guard came behind the ark, with the horns sounding without a break. ¹⁰Joshua had given the people this order: “Do not shout. Do not let your voices be heard. Not a word is to leave your mouths until the day I tell you, ‘Shout!’ Then you will shout.” ¹¹So he had the ark of the LORD taken around the city, circling it once. Then they came back to the camp and spent the night there.

The wall collapses and Rahab is spared

¹²Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. ¹³The seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns went on in front of the ark of the LORD, blowing the horns as they walked. The armed men went ahead of them, and the rear guard came behind the ark of the LORD, with the horns sounding without a break. ¹⁴On the second day they marched around the city once and went back to the camp. They did this for six days. ¹⁵On the seventh day they got up at daybreak and marched around the city in the same way, but this time seven times. That was the only day they went around the city seven times. ¹⁶The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the horns, Joshua said to the people, “Shout! The LORD has handed the city over to you. ¹⁷The city and everything in it are to be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute is to be spared, she and everyone with her in her house, because she hid the messengers we sent. ¹⁸But as for you, keep away from the things devoted to destruction. Do not devote them and then take any of them for yourselves. If you do, you will make the camp of Israel something devoted to destruction, and you will bring trouble on it. ¹⁹All the silver and gold and everything made of bronze and iron is holy to the LORD. It must go into the LORD’s treasury.” ²⁰So the people shouted, and the horns were blown. As soon as the people heard the sound of the horn, they raised a great shout, and the wall collapsed where it stood. The people went up into the city, each of them straight ahead, and they took the city. ²¹They devoted to destruction everything in the city: men and women, young and old, and cattle, sheep and donkeys too. They put them all to the sword. ²²Joshua gave an order to the two men who had spied out the land: “Go to the prostitute’s house and bring out the woman and everyone who belongs to her, just as you promised her with an oath.” ²³So the young men who had been spies went in and brought out Rahab, with her father and mother, her brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out all her relatives and settled them outside the camp of Israel. ²⁴Then they burned the city with fire, and everything in it. But they put the silver and gold and the bronze and iron goods into the treasury of the LORD’s house. ²⁵But Joshua spared the life of Rahab the prostitute, along with her father’s household and everyone who belonged to her, and she has lived among the people of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho.

A curse on whoever rebuilds Jericho

²⁶At that time Joshua put the people under this oath: \q “Cursed before the LORD be the man who sets out to rebuild this city, Jericho! \q At the price of his firstborn he will lay its foundation; \q at the price of his youngest he will set its gates in place.” ²⁷So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread through the whole land.