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The Battle of Jericho, as described in the Biblical Book of Joshua, was the first battle fought by the Israelites in the course of the conquest of Canaan. According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls.
For six days, the Israelites marched around the city once a day with the Ark of the Covenant, while priests blew trumpets made of ram’s horns. On the seventh day, they marched around the city seven times. After the seventh lap, the priests blew their trumpets loudly, and Joshua commanded the people to shout. According to the text, at that moment, the walls of Jericho collapsed, and the Israelites were able to capture the city.
Excavations at Tell es-Sultan, the biblical Jericho, have failed to find any traces of a city at the relevant time (end of the Bronze Age), which has led to a consensus among scholars that the story has its origins in the nationalist propaganda of much later kings of Judah and their claims to the territory of the Kingdom of Israel.
by Time-Caterpillar
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Thx for actually explaining most people dont
Very significant one in the history of bible
It still isn’t nearly as outrageous as Joshua allegedly stopping the Sun in the sky (which, as a bonus, millennia later got heliocentrism branded as heretical).