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The Fall of Jericho, as described in the biblical Book of Joshua, was the first military engagement fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan. According to Joshua 6:1–27 , the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days, seven times on the seventh day, with the ...
Rahab (center) in James Tissot's The Harlot of Jericho and the Two Spies.Rahab (/ ˈ r eɪ h æ b /; [1] Hebrew: רָחָב, Modern: Raẖav, Tiberian: Rāḥāḇ, "broad", "large" "رحاب") was, according to the Book of Joshua, a Gentile and a Canaanite woman who resided within Jericho in the Promised Land and assisted the Israelites by hiding two men who had been sent to scout the city ...
Achan (/ ˈ eɪ k æ n /; Hebrew: עָכָן, romanized: ‘Āḵān), the son of Carmi, a descendant of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, is a figure who appears in the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible in connection with the fall of Jericho and conquest of Ai. His name is given as Achar (עָכָר֙ ‘Āḵār) in 1 ...
Bryant G. Wood (born 1936) is an American biblical archaeologist and Young Earth creationist.Wood is known for arguing that the destruction of Jericho could be accorded with the biblical literalist chronology of c. 1400 BC.
The first time the place is mentioned is in the Bible.Ketef Jericho is part of Mount of Temptation and is known for its many caves. They are mentioned in the Book of Joshua, it is the location where Rahab sent the spies, while in the Book of Maccabees and "The Jewish War" it is noted as the refuge place to where Ptolemy son of Abubus fled after assassinating Simon son of Mattathias.
Luke 19 is the nineteenth chapter of the Gospel of Luke in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.It records Jesus' arrival in Jericho and his meeting with Zacchaeus, the parable of the minas and Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem. [1]
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Due to the nature of this narrative, the phrase valley of trouble became eminently proverbial and occurs elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. The Book of Isaiah and Book of Hosea use the term – the valley of trouble, a place for herds to lie down in , [ 3 ] the valley of trouble for a door of hope , [ 4 ] as a way of describing the redemption ...