Posted by rotation.org member Abby R.

North Boulevard Church of Christ
Murfreesboro, TN

STOMP - Marching Around Jericho

Characters:

• Narrator
• Joshua
• Israelites
• Priests

Props:

• Bible costumes
• Ark of the Covenant
• Painted moving boxes to be the walls around Jericho
• Seven rams’ horns (for the priests)

Setting:

 

The Israelites have marched around the walls of Jericho for six days. On this, the seventh day, they prepare to march seven times. This show involves a rhythmic marching routine (like the Broadway show STOMP) that takes place as they circle the city. As the story opens, the Israelites are sitting and standing in groups, on one side of the stage, talking quietly and getting ready to depart for Jericho. The walls are set up on the other side.

 

NARRATOR: Several days ago, the commander of the army of the LORD came to Joshua delivering instructions about how to defeat Jericho. He said, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. March around the city once with all the armed men. Do this for six days. Have seven priests carry trumpets of rams' horns in front of the ark. On the seventh day, march around the city seven times, with the priests blowing the trumpets. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go up, every man straight in."

NARRATOR: Now it is the seventh day. They got up at daybreak. It is time to march…

(Israelites line up with Joshua first, then the fighting men. Next come the priests and the ark, followed by more fighting men.)

(The Israelites begin their marching rhythm when Joshua gives the signal. He should also keep track of the number of times they march around so that the priests know when to blow their horns.)

NARRATOR: The Israelites marched around the city seven times and on the seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the people to shout.

JOSHUA: Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!

(Priests blow the trumpets and the people shout.)

NARRATOR: When the trumpets sounded, the people shouted, and the wall collapsed; so every man charged straight in, and they took the city.

(Someone behind the “wall” should knock the boxes down.)

(Everyone exits the stage but the narrator and Joshua. Joshua kneels in prayer center stage.)

NARRATOR: So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.