Joshua 6:5
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And when there is a long blast of the ram’s horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city.”
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By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.
And as the sound of the ram’s horn grew louder and louder, Moses spoke and God answered him in the thunder.
When the ark of the covenant of the LORD entered the camp, all the Israelites raised such a great shout that it shook the ground.
After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
Then the men of Israel and Judah charged forward with a shout and pursued the Philistines to the entrance of Gath and to the gates of Ekron. And the bodies of the Philistines were strewn along the Shaaraim road to Gath and Ekron.
So David got up early in the morning, left the flock with a keeper, loaded up, and set out as Jesse had instructed him. He reached the camp as the army was marching out to its position and shouting the battle cry.
So when the rams’ horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.
The high-walled fortress will be brought down, cast to the ground, into the dust.
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has done, do the same to her.
And from every high mountain and every raised hill, streams of water will flow in the day of great slaughter, when the towers fall.