Joshua 4:17   (Read all of Joshua 4)

So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."

Joshua 4:18   (Read all of Joshua 4)

And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.

Joshua 4:20   (Read all of Joshua 4)

And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.

Joshua 4:21   (Read all of Joshua 4)

He said to the Israelites, "In the future when your descendants ask their parents, 'What do these stones mean?'

Joshua 4:23   (Read all of Joshua 4)

For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.

Joshua 4:24   (Read all of Joshua 4)

He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the Lord is powerful and so that you might always fear the Lord your God."

Joshua 5:2   (Read all of Joshua 5)

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites again."

Joshua 5:3   (Read all of Joshua 5)

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.

Joshua 5:4   (Read all of Joshua 5)

Now this is why he did so: All those who came out of Egypt-all the men of military age-died in the wilderness on the way after leaving Egypt.

Joshua 5:6   (Read all of Joshua 5)

The Israelites had moved about in the wilderness forty years until all the men who were of military age when they left Egypt had died, since they had not obeyed the Lord. For the Lord had sworn to them that they would not see the land he had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Joshua 5:7   (Read all of Joshua 5)

So he raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised because they had not been circumcised on the way.

Joshua 5:9   (Read all of Joshua 5)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.

Joshua 5:11   (Read all of Joshua 5)

The day after the Passover, that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: unleavened bread and roasted grain.

Joshua 5:12   (Read all of Joshua 5)

The manna stopped the day after they ate this food from the land; there was no longer any manna for the Israelites, but that year they ate the produce of Canaan.

Joshua 5:13   (Read all of Joshua 5)

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?"

Joshua 5:14   (Read all of Joshua 5)

"Neither," he replied, "but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come." Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, "What message does my Lord have for his servant?"

Joshua 5:15   (Read all of Joshua 5)

The commander of the Lord's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.

Joshua 6:1   (Read all of Joshua 6)

Now the gates of Jericho were securely barred because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

Joshua 6:2   (Read all of Joshua 6)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.

Joshua 6:3   (Read all of Joshua 6)

March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days.

Joshua 6:4   (Read all of Joshua 6)

Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets.

Joshua 6:5   (Read all of Joshua 6)

When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in."

Joshua 6:6   (Read all of Joshua 6)

So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord and have seven priests carry trumpets in front of it."

Joshua 6:8   (Read all of Joshua 6)

When Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord's covenant followed them.