#7 The Ark Carried Around Jericho

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Joshua 6
The Ark of the Covenant Carried around Jericho

So Joshua, following the LORD’S instructions, called the priests and said to them, “Take up the Ark of the Covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

And he said to the people, “Go forward. March around the city and let the armed men go before the ark of the LORD.”

When Joshua commanded the people, the seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the LORD went forward, blowing the trumpets, and the Ark of the Covenant of the LORD followed them.

And the armed men walked ahead of the priests who were blew the trumpets, and the rear guard followed the ark, while the trumpets blew continually. But Joshua commanded the people, “Do not shout or make your voice heard, neither shall a word go out of your mouth, until the day I tell you to shout. Then you shall shout.”

The ark of the LORD circled the city, going about it once. And then they returned to the camp and spent the night there.

Joshua got up early the next morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. The seven priests carrying the seven trumpets of rams' horns went forward, and marched before the ark of the LORD, and they blew the trumpets continually. The armed men walked ahead of them, and the rear guard followed the ark of the LORD, while the trumpets blew continually.

And the second day they marched around the city once, and returned to the camp. This they did for six days.

On the seventh day they rose up at dawn, and marched around the city in the same manner, except that day that they marched around the city seven times.

And the seventh time around, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, “Shout, for the LORD has given you the city!

So the people shouted, and the trumpets sounded. And as soon as the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted a great shout, and the wall fell down flat!

The Ark of the Covenant was set up by Joshua at Shiloh (Joshua 18:1). When the children of Israel fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them, and consulted it after their defeat (Judges 20:27). The Ark is again mentioned being in the Temple at Shiloh during Samuel’s apprenticeship (1 Samuel 3:3).


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