Joshua Fought the Battle of Jericho
▻https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Fought_the_Battle_of_Jericho
De tendres souvenirs d’enfance sont liés à cette belle chanson. On ne se rendait pas compte qu’il était question d’exterminer les habitants d’une ville qui refusaient de se rendre sans réstister à un envahisseur.
Refrain:
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho, Jericho, Jericho,
Joshua fought the battle of Jericho
and the walls came tumbling down.
1. Strophe:
You may talk about your man of Gideon,
you may talk about your king of Saul,
there’s none like good old Joshua
at the battle of Jericho
2. Strophe:
Up to the walls of Jericho
he marched with spear in hand,
“Go blow them ram-horns” Joshua cried,
“’cause the battle is in my hand.”
3. Strophe:
Then the lamb ram sheep horns begin a blow,
trumpets begin a sound.
Joshua commanded the children to shout,
and the walls came tumbling down.
▻https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%205:13-6:27&version=NIV
When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. 21 They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
22 Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the prostitute’s house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her.” 23 So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.
24 Then they burned the whole city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house. 25 But Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent as spies to Jericho—and she lives among the Israelites to this day.
26 At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: “Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho:
“At the cost of his firstborn son
he will lay its foundations;
at the cost of his youngest
he will set up its gates.”
27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.
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