It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times.
"And they took the city ..."  (Joshua 6:20).  Mercifully, we are not given the description of all that this blunt word means.  The terror and the tragedy of the doomed city were of no avail.  The vast hordes of the Israelites, outnumbering Jericho in double digit multiples, showed no mercy or hesitancy whatever in putting to the sword every living thing in the city.   Joshua 6:21 simply designated the slaughter as complete: "every man, every woman, every child, every animal."  Modern man, as a general thing, has declared himself ABOVE such a destruction as this, but humanity's arrogant conceit in doing so is a woeful misunderstanding of WHY God Himself commanded this destruction to be executed upon Jericho.  The MORAL CANCER of Canaan was, at that point in time, out of control, and there was no other recourse available to terminate the wicked debaucheries and immoralities of a people running wild, unrestrained, in utter rebellion against the Creator!  Modern men would do well to learn the lesson in this instead of preening themselves as being SUPERIOR to God Almighty Himself in their self-imputed morality, which they have the gall to offer as "the NEW morality"!