<p class="bodytext">The people said to Joshua, &#8220;We will worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> our God and obey him.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

There has not been a day like it before or since. The <sc>Lordsc> obeyed<n id="1" /> a man, for the <sc>Lordsc> fought for Israel!

and told them: &#8220;You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.<n id="1" />

When you hear the signal from the ram&#8217;s horn,<n id="1" /> have the whole army give a loud battle cry.<n id="2" /> Then the city wall will collapse<n id="3" /> and the warriors should charge straight ahead.&#8221;<n id="4" />p>

Now Joshua had instructed the army,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Do not give a battle cry<n id="2" /> or raise your voices; say nothing<n id="3" /> until the day I tell you, &#8216;Give the battle cry.&#8217;<n id="4" /> Then give the battle cry!&#8221;<n id="5" />

<p class="bodytext">The rams&#8217; horns sounded<n id="1" /> and when the army<n id="2" /> heard the signal,<n id="3" /> they gave a loud battle cry.<n id="4" /> The wall collapsed<n id="5" /> and the warriors charged straight ahead into the city and captured it.<n id="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 <sc>Lordsc>, died off.<n id="1" /> For the <sc>Lordsc> had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them,<n id="2" /> a land rich in<n id="3" /> milk and honey.