Bible Cities: Jericho
Ancient Jericho
JERICHO was a city of Benjamin, lying about 7 miles from the Jordan, and 18 miles east-north-east from Jerusalem. It was a very ancient city, and was the first place in the Promised Land taken by the Israelites after their passage of the Jordan, the capture being accomplished by the miraculous destruction of its walls. A new" Jericho was afterwards built on a neighboring site, and became a noted place, second in importance only to Jerusalem. It contained a school of the prophets, and was. the residence of Elisha. Our Saviour visited it, and gave sight to two blind men here (Matt. 20:29-34), and forgave Zaccheus (Luke 19:1-10). Tradition makes the lofty mountain, called Quarantana, to'the north-west of the city, the scene of the fasting and temptation of our Lord in the Wilderness after his baptism. The exact site of Jericho is a matter of dispute. - Ancient Geography
Ancient Jericho - Map of New Testament Israel
JER`I-CHO (his moon, month, or sweet smell). An original
city of Canaan in valley of Jordan seven miles from the
river, and eighteen miles from Jerusalem. Due west from
Gilgal and the place where the river was forded by the
Israelites. Destroyed by Joshua and fell to Benjamin, Josh,
16:7 ; 18:21. A curse was pronounced on him who should
rebuild it. Josh, 6:26 ; 1 Kings 16:34. Called "the city of
Palm trees" in Deut. 34:3 ; Judg. 1:16. The revived Jericho
probably occupied a site near to old. It came into great
importance, and is frequently mentioned in after history, 2
Kings 2:1-22 ; 25:5 ; Matt, 20:30 ; Mark 10:46.
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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 valley (Num. 22:1;
34:15), and the
strongest fortress in all the land of Canaan. It was
the key to
Western Israel.
This city was taken in a very remarkable manner by
the
Israelites (Josh. 6). God gave it into their hands.
The city was
"accursed" (Heb. herem, "devoted" to Jehovah), and
accordingly
(Josh. 6:17; comp. Lev. 27:28, 29; Deut. 13:16) all
the
inhabitants and all the spoil of the city were to be
destroyed,
"only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of
brass and of
iron" were reserved and "put into the treasury of
the house of
Jehovah" (Josh. 6:24; comp. Num. 31:22, 23, 50-54).
Only Rahab
"and her father's household, and all that she had,"
were
preserved from destruction, according to the promise
of the
spies (Josh. 2:14). In one of the Amarna tablets
Adoni-zedec
(q.v.) writes to the king of Egypt informing him
that the 'Abiri
(Hebrews) had prevailed, and had taken the fortress
of Jericho,
and were plundering "all the king's lands." It would
seem that
the Egyptian troops had before this been withdrawn
from
Israel.
This city was given to the tribe of Benjamin (Josh.
18:21),
and it was inhabited in the time of the Judges
(Judg. 3:13; 2
Sam. 10:5). It is not again mentioned...
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Jericho in Hitchcock's Bible Names
his moon; his month; his sweet smell
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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 within the territory allotted to Benjamin
Jos 18:12,21
The Kenites lived at
Jud 1:16
King of Moab makes conquest of, and establishes his
capital
at
Jud 3:13
Rebuilt by Hiel
1Ki 16:34
Company of "the sons of the prophets," lived at
2Ki 2:4,5,15,18
Captives of Judah, taken by the king of Israel, released
at,
on account of the denunciation of the prophet Oded
2Ch 28:7-15
Inhabitants of, taken captive to Babylon, return to,
with
Ezra and Nehemiah
Ezr 2:34; Ne 7:36
Assist in repairing the walls of Jerusalem
Ne 3:2
Blind men healed at, by Jesus
Mt 20:29-34; Mr 10:46; Lu 18:35
Zacchaeus lived at
Lu 19:1-10
-2. Plain of
2Ki 25:5; Jer 52:8
-3. Waters of
Jos 16:1
Purified by Elisha
2Ki 2:18-22
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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 them. ch.
Jos 2:15 The spoil that was found in it betokened its
affluence. Jericho is first mentioned as the city to which
the two spies were sent by Joshua from Shittim. Jos 2:1-21
It was bestowed by him upon the tribe of Benjamin, ch. Jos
18:21 and from this time a long interval elapses before
Jericho appears again upon the scene. Its second foundation
under Hiel the Bethelite is recorded in 1Ki 16:34 Once
rebuilt, Jericho rose again slowly into consequence. In its
immediate vicinity the sons of the prophets sought
retirement from the world; Elisha "healed the spring of the
waters;" and over against it, beyond Jordan, Elijah "went up
by a whirlwind into heaven." 2Ki 2:1-22 In its plains
Zedekiah fell into the hands of the Chaldeans. 2Ki 25:5; Jer
39:5 In the return under Zerubbabel the "children of
Jericho," 345 in number, are comprised. Ezr 2:34; Ne 7:36
Under Herod the Great it again became an important place. He
fortified it and built a number of new palaces, which he
named after his friends. If he did not make Jericho his
habitual residence, he at last retired thither to die, and
it was in the amphitheater of Jericho that the news of his
death was announced to the assembled soldiers and people by
Salome. Soon afterward the palace was burnt and the town
plundered by one Simon, slave to Herod; but Archelaus
rebuilt the former sumptuously, and founded a new town on
the plain, that bore his own name; and, most important of
all, diverted water from a village called Neaera to irrigate
the plain which he had planted with palms. Thus Jericho was
once more "a city of palms" when our Lord visited it. Here
he restored sight to the blind. Mt 20:30; Mr 10:46; Lu 18:35
Here the descendant of Rahab did not disdain the hospitality
of Zaccaeus the publican. Finally, between Jerusalem and
Jericho was laid the scene of his story of the good
Samaritan. The city was destroyed by Vespasian. The site of
ancient (the first) Jericho is placed by Dr. Robinson in the
immediate neighborhood of the fountain of Elisha; and that
of the second (the city of the New Testament and of
Josephus) at the opening of the Wady Kelt (Cherith), half an
hour from the fountain. (The village identified with jericho
lies a mile and a half from the ancient site, and is called
Riha. It contains probably 200 inhabitants, indolent and
licentious and about 40 houses. Dr. Olin says it is the
"meanest and foulest village of Israel;" yet the soil of
the plain is of unsurpassed fertility. --ED.)
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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
indeclinable form, Iericho (Swete has the form Iereicho as
well), both with and without the feminine article; in the
New Testament Iereicho, once with the feminine article The
Arabic is er-Riha. According to Dt 32:49 it stood opposite
Nebo, while in 34:3 it is called a city grove of palm trees.
It was surrounded with a wall (Josh 2:15), and provided with
a gate which was closed at night (Josh 2:5), an d was ruled
over by a king. When captured, vessels of brass and iron,
large quantities of silver and gold, and "a goodly
Babylonish garment" were found in it (Josh 7:21). It was on
the western side of the Jordan, not far from the camp of
Israel at Shittim, before crossing the river (Josh 2:1). The
city was on the "plains" (Josh 4:13), but so close to "the
mountain" on the West (probably the cliffs of Quarantania,
the traditional scene of Christ's temptation) that it was
within easy reach of the spies, protected by Rahab. It was
in the lot of Benjamin (Josh 18:21), the border of which
ascended to the "slope (English versions of the Bible
"side") of Jeremiah on the North" (Josh 18:12). Authorities
are generally agreed in locating the ancient city at Tel es-
Sultan, a mile and a half Northwest of modern Jericho. Here
there is a mound 1,200 ft. long and 50 ft. in height
supporting 4 smaller mounds, the highest of which is 90 ft.
above the base of the main mound.
The geological situation (see JORDAN VALLEY) sheds great
light upon the capture of the city by Joshua (Josh 6). If
the city was built as we suppose it to have been, upon the
unconsolidated sedimentary deposits which accumulated to a
great depth in the Jordan valley during the enlargement of
the Dead Sea, which took place in Pleistocene (or glacial)
times, the sudden falling of the walls becomes easily
credible to anyone who believes in the personality of God
and in His power either to foreknow the future or to direct
at His will the secondary causes with which man has to deal
in Nature. The narrative does not state that the blowing of
the rams' horns of themselves effected the falling of the
walls. It was simply said that at a specified juncture on
the 7th day the walls would fall, and that they actually
fell at that juncture. The miracle may, therefore, be
regarded as either that of prophecy, in which the Creator by
foretelling the course of things to Joshua, secured the
junction of Divine and human activities which constitutes a
true miracle, or we may regard the movements which brought
down the walls to be the result of direct Divine action,
such as is exerted by man when be produces an explosion of
dynamite at a particular time and place. The phenomena are
just such as occurred in the earthquake of San Francisco in
1906, where, according to the report of the scientific
commission appointed by the state, "the most violent
destruction of buildings was on the made ground. This ground
seems to have behaved during the earthquake very much in the
same way as jelly in a bowl, or as a semi-liquid in a tank."
Santa Rosa, situated on the valley floor, "underlain to a
considerable depth by loose or slightly coherent geological
formations, .... 20 miles from the rift, was the most
severely shaken town in the state and suffered the greatest
disaster relatively to its population and extent" (Report,
13 and 15). Thus an earthquake, such as is easily...
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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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Jericho Scripture - 1 Kings 16:34
In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the
foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the
gates thereof in his youngest [son] Segub, according to the
word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.
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Jericho Scripture - 2 Chronicles 28:15
And the men which were expressed by name rose up, and took the
captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among
them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat
and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of
them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm
trees, to their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.
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Jericho Scripture - Joshua 10:1
Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had
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;
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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 Scripture - Joshua 10:30
And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the
hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword,
and all the souls that [were] therein; he let none remain in
it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of
Jericho.
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Jericho Scripture - Joshua 12:9
The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside
Bethel, one;
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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 - Joshua 20:8
And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they
assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the
tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,
and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
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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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