Yosua 6:5

6:5 When you hear the signal from the ram’s horn, ¹  have the whole army give a loud battle cry. ²  Then the city wall will collapse ³  and the warriors should charge straight ahead.” ⁴ 

Yosua 6:20

6:20 The rams’ horns sounded ⁵  and when the army ⁶  heard the signal, ⁷  they gave a loud battle cry. ⁸  The wall collapsed ⁹  and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it. ¹⁰ 

Yosua 6:10

6:10 Now Joshua had instructed the army, ¹¹  “Do not give a battle cry ¹²  or raise your voices; say nothing ¹³  until the day I tell you, ‘Give the battle cry.’ ¹⁴  Then give the battle cry!” ¹⁵ 

Yosua 6:12

6:12 Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord. ¹⁶ 

Yosua 24:24

24:24 The people said to Joshua, “We will worship ¹⁷  the Lord our God and obey him.” ¹⁸ 

Yosua 6:8

6:8 When Joshua gave the army its orders, ¹⁹  the seven priests carrying the seven rams’ horns before the Lord moved ahead and blew the horns as the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed behind.

Yosua 6:16

6:16 The seventh time around, the priests blew the rams’ horns and Joshua told the army, ²⁰  “Give the battle cry, ²¹  for the Lord is handing the city over to you! ²² 

Yosua 5:6

5:6 Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. ²³  For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, ²⁴  a land rich in ²⁵  milk and honey.

[6:5]  ¹ tn Heb “and it will be at the sounding of the horn, the ram’s horn, when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn.” The text of Josh 6:5 seems to be unduly repetitive, so for the sake of English style and readability, it is best to streamline the text here. The reading in the Hebrew looks like a conflation of variant readings, with the second (“when you hear the sound of the ram’s horn”) being an interpolation that assimilates the text to verse 20 (“when the army heard the sound of the horn”). Note that the words “when you hear the sound of the ram's horn” do not appear in the LXX of verse 5.

[6:5]  ² tn Heb “all the people will shout with a loud shout.”

[6:5]  ³ tn Heb “fall in its place.”

[6:5]  ⁴ tn Heb “and the people will go up, each man straight ahead.”

[6:20]  ⁵ tc Heb “and the people shouted and they blew the rams’ horns.” The initial statement (“and the people shouted”) seems premature, since the verse goes on to explain that the battle cry followed the blowing of the horns. The statement has probably been accidentally duplicated from what follows. It is omitted in the LXX.

[6:20]  ⁶ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:20]  ⁷ tn Heb “the sound of the horn.”

[6:20]  ⁸ tn Heb “they shouted with a loud shout.”

[6:20]  ⁹ tn Heb “fell in its place.”

[6:20]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “and the people went up into the city, each one straight ahead, and they captured the city.”

[6:10]  ¹¹ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:10]  ¹² tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ¹³ tn Heb “do not let a word come out of your mouths.”

[6:10]  ¹⁴ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:10]  ¹⁵ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:12]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests picked up the ark of the Lord.”

[24:24]  ¹⁷ tn Or “will serve.”

[24:24]  ¹⁸ tn Heb “and listen to his voice.”

[6:8]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “when Joshua spoke to the people.”

[6:16]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the people.”

[6:16]  ²¹ tn Or “the shout.”

[6:16]  ²² tn Heb “for the Lord has given to you the city.” The verbal form is a perfect, probably indicating certitude here.

[5:6]  ²³ tn Heb “all the nation, the men of war who went out from Egypt, who did not listen to the voice of the Lord, came to an end.”

[5:6]  ²⁴ tn Some Hebrew mss, as well as the Syriac version, support this reading. Most ancient witnesses read “us.”

[5:6]  ²⁵ tn Heb “flowing with.”

[5:6]  sn The word picture a land rich in milk and honey depicts the land as containing many grazing areas (which would produce milk) and flowering plants (which would support the bees that produced honey).