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The walls of Jericho fall

1451 BCUssher date

Joshua 6; Hebrews 11:30

Israel marched around Jericho once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh; at the trumpet blast and shout, the walls fell.

So the people shouted and the priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight in front of him, and they took the city.

Joshua 6:20 (World English Bible)
AsherNaphtaliZebulunIssacharManassehManassehEphraimBenjaminDanJudahSimeonGadReubenDan (later)Great SeaHazorShechemShilohAiGibeonJerichoHebronLachishJordan crossingTribe locations are approximate. Levi received towns, not a territory.Coastlines simplified
Joshua's conquest and the tribal territories (Joshua 13–19).

Jericho was a strongly walled city guarding the way into the hill country. God's battle plan was a procession: armed men, seven priests with rams' horns, and the ark. On the seventh day the people shouted, and the wall collapsed.

The city was devoted to God. Only Rahab and her family were spared, and she went on to live among Israel.

Places

Jericho

Dating notes

Shortly after Passover (Ussher, 1451 BC). The archaeology of Jericho is debated: John Garstang (1930s) and Bryant Wood (1990) argued for a destruction fitting an early Exodus, while Kathleen Kenyon dated the destroyed city earlier.

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