Jericho
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Matthew 20:29 records a great crowd following as they went out from here. Numbers 22:1 places the plains of Moab, where the children of Israel encamp, beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 26:3 and 26:63 place the count Moses and Eleazar the priest made of the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 31:12, 33:48, 33:50, 35:1 and 36:13 place the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, and 34:15 has the two tribes and the half-tribe receive their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Joshua 2:1–3 says that Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho,” and that they came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab; the king of Jericho was told that men of the children of Israel had come in to spy out the land, and sent to Rahab, telling her to bring out the men. In Joshua 6 Jericho is tightly shut up because of the children of Israel, and the LORD says to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor”; the city is marched around once on each of six days and seven times on the seventh day, the people shout, the wall falls down flat, and they take the city and burn it with fire. At 6:26 Joshua commands them with an oath, “Cursed is the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho.” 2 Kings 2:4–5 says that Elijah said, “the LORD has sent me to Jericho”, that they came to Jericho, and that the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you today?”; and 2:15–18 that the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha”, and said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master”, that the fifty men they sent searched for three days, but didn’t find him, and that they came back to Elisha while he stayed at Jericho. Mark 10:46 says they came to Jericho, and as Jesus went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. Luke 18:35 says that as Jesus came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging, and 19:1–2 that as he entered and was passing through Jericho, there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, and rich. Deuteronomy 34:3 names “the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar” among the lands the LORD showed Moses.
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- Numbers22:1, 26:1–4, 26:63–65, 31:7–12, 33:41–49, 33:50–56, 34:13–15, 35:1–8, 36:13
- Deuteronomy32:48–52, 34:1–4
- Joshua2:1, 2:2–7, 3:14–17, 4:10–14, 4:19–24, 5:10–12, 5:13–15, 6:1–5, 6:6–11, 6:12–14, 6:15–21, 6:22–25, 6:26, 7:2–5, 8:1–2, 9:3–6, 10:1–5, 10:28, 10:29–30, 12:7–24, 13:32–33, 16:1–3, 16:5–8, 18:12–13, 18:21–24, 20:7–8, 24:1–13
- 2 Samuel10:1–5
- 1 Kings16:34
- 2 Kings2:4–5, 2:15–18, 25:4–7
- 1 Chronicles6:77–81, 19:1–5
- 2 Chronicles28:12–15
- Ezra2:21–35
- Nehemiah7:25–38
- Jeremiah39:4–7, 52:6–11
- Matthew20:29–34
- Mark10:46–52
- Luke10:25–37, 18:35–43, 19:1–10
- Hebrews11:30–31
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Narrated location (10) — Rahab hides the two men under the stalks of flax on the roof, The LORD’s word to march around the city six days, and seven times on the seventh day, Rahab the prostitute brought out and saved alive, and the city burned with fire, Hiel the Bethelite builds Jericho with the loss of Abiram his firstborn and Segub his youngest son, Elijah and Elisha come to Jericho, and the sons of the prophets at Jericho come near to Elisha, The sons of the prophets at Jericho bow before Elisha and send fifty men, who search for three days, Ephraim’s leaders care for and return the captives to Jericho, Two blind men see as they leave Jericho, Blind Bartimaeus receives his sight at Jericho, Passing through Jericho, he goes in to lodge with Zacchaeus
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The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.
Moses and Eleazar the priest spoke with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
These are those who were counted by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who counted the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
They brought the captives with the prey and the plunder, to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of the children of Israel, to the camp at the plains of Moab, which are by the Jordan at Jericho.
They traveled from the mountains of Abarim, and encamped in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
The two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrise.”
The LORD spoke to Moses in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,
These are the commandments and the ordinances which the LORD commanded by Moses to the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.
“Go up into this mountain of Abarim, to Mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is across from Jericho; and see the land of Canaan, which I give to the children of Israel for a possession.
Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is opposite Jericho. The LORD showed him all the land of Gilead to Dan,
and the south, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar.
Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.
The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to spy out the land.”
Jericho’s king sent to Rahab, saying, “Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to spy out all the land.”
the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.
About forty thousand men, ready and armed for war, passed over before the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal. They kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
When Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him and said to him, “Are you for us, or for our enemies?”
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.
The LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.
But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, “Go up and spy out the land.” The men went up and spied out Ai.
You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king, except you shall take its goods and its livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it.”
But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,
Joshua took Makkedah on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, with its king. He utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining. He did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
The LORD delivered it also, with its king, into the hand of Israel. He struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were in it. He left no one remaining in it. He did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward.
The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.
It went down from Janoah to Ataroth, to Naarah, reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
Their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan. The border went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward. It ended at the wilderness of Beth Aven.
Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, Beth Hoglah, Emek Keziz,
Beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
When they told David this, he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly ashamed. The king said, “Wait at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
In his days Hiel the Bethelite built Jericho. He laid its foundation with the loss of Abiram his firstborn, and set up its gates with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the LORD’s word, which he spoke by Joshua the son of Nun.
Elijah said to him, “Elisha, please wait here, for the LORD has sent me to Jericho.” He said, “As the LORD lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you.” So they came to Jericho.
The sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha, and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you today?” He answered, “Yes, I know it. Hold your peace.”
When the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho facing him saw him, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” They came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.
They came back to him while he stayed at Jericho; and he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you, ‘Don’t go’?”
But the Chaldean army pursued the king, and overtook him in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
and beyond the Jordan at Jericho, on the east side of the Jordan, were given them out of the tribe of Reuben: Bezer in the wilderness with its pasture lands, Jahzah with its pasture lands,
Then some people went and told David how the men were treated. He sent to meet them; for the men were greatly humiliated. The king said, “Stay at Jericho until your beards have grown, and then return.”
The men who have been mentioned by name rose up and took the captives, and with the plunder clothed all who were naked among them, dressed them, gave them sandals, gave them something to eat and to drink, anointed them, carried all the feeble of them on donkeys, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm trees, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
The children of Jericho, three hundred forty-five.
The children of Jericho: three hundred forty-five.
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. When they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he pronounced judgment on him.
but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho; and all his army was scattered from him.
As they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.
They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road.
Jesus answered, “A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who both stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead.
As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.
He entered and was passing through Jericho.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they had been encircled for seven days.
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[Bibliadatum entry report] Entry: Jericho (place-jericho) Address: https://bibliadatum.org/en/wiki/place/jericho Current wording: Matthew 20:29 records a great crowd following as they went out from here. Numbers 22:1 places the plains of Moab, where the children of Israel encamp, beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 26:3 and 26:63 place the count Moses and Eleazar the priest made of the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho. Numbers 31:12, 33:48, 33:50, 35:1 and 36:13 place the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, and 34:15 has the two tribes and the half-tribe receive their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho. Joshua 2:1–3 says that Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho,” and that they came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab; the king of Jericho was told that men of the children of Israel had come in to spy out the land, and sent to Rahab, telling her to bring out the men. In Joshua 6 Jericho is tightly shut up because of the children of Israel, and the LORD says to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor”; the city is marched around once on each of six days and seven times on the seventh day, the people shout, the wall falls down flat, and they take the city and burn it with fire. At 6:26 Joshua commands them with an oath, “Cursed is the man before the LORD who rises up and builds this city Jericho.” 2 Kings 2:4–5 says that Elijah said, “the LORD has sent me to Jericho”, that they came to Jericho, and that the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho came near to Elisha and said to him, “Do you know that the LORD will take away your master from over you today?”; and 2:15–18 that the sons of the prophets who were at Jericho said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha”, and said to him, “See now, there are with your servants fifty strong men. Please let them go and seek your master”, that the fifty men they sent searched for three days, but didn’t find him, and that they came back to Elisha while he stayed at Jericho. Mark 10:46 says they came to Jericho, and as Jesus went out from Jericho with his disciples and a great multitude, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. Luke 18:35 says that as Jesus came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging, and 19:1–2 that as he entered and was passing through Jericho, there was a man named Zacchaeus, a chief tax collector, and rich. Deuteronomy 34:3 names “the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm trees, to Zoar” among the lands the LORD showed Moses. Cited evidence: 1CH 6:77–81, engwebp / 1CH 19:1–5, engwebp / 1KI 16:34, engwebp / 2CH 28:12–15, engwebp / 2KI 2:4–5, engwebp / 2KI 2:15–18, engwebp / 2KI 25:4–7, engwebp / 2SA 10:1–5, engwebp (and 48 more of 56) Review state: ai-assisted / human-review-pending What looks wrong: (not written yet) --- This collection records what the text says and does not settle interpretation. A report about a reading that divides opinion may be registered as an unresolved issue rather than corrected.