Joshua 5:13-15

New International Version

The Fall of Jericho

¹³Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man^(A) standing in front of him with a drawn sword^(B) in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies?”

¹⁴“Neither,” he replied, “but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come.” Then Joshua fell facedown^(C) to the ground^(D) in reverence, and asked him, “What message does my Lord^[a] have for his servant?”

¹⁵The commander of the Lord’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.”^(E) And Joshua did so.

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Footnotes

Joshua 5:14 Or lord

Amos 7:9

New International Version

⁹“The high places^(A) of Isaac will be destroyed
and the sanctuaries^(B) of Israel will be ruined;
with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.^(C)”

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Amos 7:9 in all English translations

Amos 7:17

New International Version

¹⁷“Therefore this is what the Lord says:

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute^(A) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan^[a] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,^(B)
    away from their native land.^(C)’”