Jericho

Jericho in Naves Topical Bible

1. A city east of Jerusalem and near the Jordan River Nu 22:1; 26:3; De 34:1 Called THE CITY OF PALM TREES De 34:3 Location of, pleasant 2Ki 2:19 Rahab the harlot lived in Jos 2; Heb 11:31 Joshua sees the "captain of the host" of the Lord near Jos 5:13-15 Besieged by Joshua for seven days; fall and destruction of Jos 6; 24:11 Situated ...

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Jericho in Smiths Bible Dictionary

(place of fragrance), a city of high antiquity, situated in a plain traversed by the Jordan, and exactly over against where that river was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua. Jos 3:16 It was five miles west of the Jordan and seven miles northwest of the Dead Sea. It had a king. Its walls were so considerable that houses were built upon the...

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Jericho in Easton's Bible Dictionary

place of fragrance, a fenced city in the midst of a vast grove of palm trees, in the plain of Jordan, over against the place where that river was crossed by the Israelites (Josh. 3:16). Its site was near the 'Ain es-Sultan, Elisha's Fountain (2 Kings 2:19-22), about 5 miles west of Jordan. It was the most important city in the Jordan vall...

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Jericho in Hitchcock's Bible Names

his moon; his month; his sweet smell...

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Jericho Scripture - Joshua 18:12

And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven....

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Jericho Scripture - 1 Chronicles 6:78

And on the other side Jordan by Jericho, on the east side of Jordan, [were given them] out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer in the wilderness with her suburbs, and Jahzah with her suburbs,...

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