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Jericho Scripture - Joshua 8:2

And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it....

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Jericho in the Bible Encyclopedia - ISBE

jer'-i-ko (the word occurs in two forms. In the Pentateuch, in 2 Ki 25:5 and in Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles it is written yerecho; yericho, elsewhere): In 1 Ki 16:34 the final Hebrew letter is he (h), instead of waw (w). The termination waw (w) thought to preserve the peculiarities of the old Canaanite. dialect. In the Septuagint we have the i...

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Jericho Scripture - Joshua 10:28

And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that [were] therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho....

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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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