After 40 years in the desert, the Israelites, led by Joshua, face the fortress of Jericho to enter the Promised Land. Despite being poorly armed, they follow God’s plan of marching around the city for ...

Jericho’s claim to fame is the way it was captured by Joshua. As the Lord commanded, he and the children of Israel marched around the city once a day for six days. On the seventh, after a blast of ...

Joshua 6:20 “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the ...

Be it in songs and sermons, or in bricks and mortar, walls are sui generis among the artifacts of human culture. If not quite a precondition of culture as such, they must count among its first fruits, ...

Imagine you turned 10,000 years old — and nobody showed up at your birthday party. That’s a bit how they’re feeling in the ancient West Bank city of Jericho, believed to be one of the world’s oldest ...

After 40 years of wandering the desert, the Israelites stand at the threshold of the Promised Land under Joshua's leadership. Facing the impenetrable walls and fierce soldiers of the fortress Jericho, ...

Joshua 6:20 “So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the ...