jericho

     

Jericho (Arabic أريحا (help·info), ʼArīḥā; Hebrew יְרִיחוֹ (help·info), Stanard Yəriḥo Tiberian Yərîḫô / Yərîḥô; Greek Ἱεριχώ) is a town in the West Bank of the Palestinian territories, located within the Jericho Governorate, near the Jordan River. Its name may be derived from the word meaning "moon" in Hebrew and Canaanite, as the city was an early center of worship for lunar deities. Despite the city's long history, Jericho was first mentioned in the Book of Numbers.

Trivia about jericho

  • Circled 7 times by the Israelites in Joshua, it's said to be the world's oldest walled city
  • Achan went against Joshua's order not to take any spoils from this dis-walled city
  • In Joshua 6:20 "The wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into" this city
  • 1st town attacked by the israelites under Joshua, its 1st walls were built about 8000 B.C.
  • The remains of this city's walls Kathleen Kenyon found in the 1950s weren't the ones that fell before Joshua
  • The priests blew their trumpets, Joshua's people shouted, & this city's "wall fell down flat"
  • After Joshua & the Israelites crossed the Jordan, this city locked its gates
  • The trumpets sounded, Joshua's people shouted & this city's "wall fell down flat"
  • Things saved from this city were the gold & silver, the iron & brass vessels & Rahab & her family
  • Kathleen Kenyon's excavation of this city mentioned in Joshua showed the walls had been repaired 17 times
  • Joshua could tell you this walled town was called the “city of palm trees”
  • In the book of Joshua, this city is defeated when its walls fall down after trumpets are sounded
  • Hiel loses 2 sons in 1 Kings, fulfilling the curse Joshua laid on anyone who re-established this walled city
  • Achan admitted to Joshua that from the spoils of this city he took a "Goodly Babylon Garment"
  • Carol Barbee co-wrote the "Why We Fight" episode of this CBS show which fought its own cancellation (at least briefly)
  • 1994: The first handover of a West Bank city from Israel to the Palestinians--this one where a battle was fit
  • In its 1st episode, citizens of a Kansas town saw a mushroom cloud on the horizon & were cut off from the outside world
  • "And the Lord said unto Joshua, See, I have given unto thine hand" this city, "and the king thereof"

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