Bronze Age & The Fall of Jericho These settlements were still Neolithic, but there is evidence that they were producing pottery. It became a walled town again at the end of the 4th millennium BCE. Evidence shows that the walls have been rebuilt many times. The outside wall rested on top of a stone base.

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Walls of Jericho, massive stone walls surrounding an ancient Neolithic settlement in Jericho, built about 8000 bce. These walls, at least 13 feet (4 metres) in height and backed by a watchtower or redoubt some 28 feet tall, were intended to protect the settlement and its water supply from human intruders.

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Jericho, Palestinian Territories The world’s oldest continually-inhabited city, according to our sources, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of 20 successive settlements in Jericho, dating back 11,000 years. The city is found near the Jordan River in the West Bank and is today home to around 20,000 people.

According to Joshua 6:1–27, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city walls once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh day then blew their trumpets. Dever to characterise the story of the fall of Jericho as “invented out of whole cloth”.

The reason that Joshua destroyed Jericho was because, when God told him to do it, Joshua trusted that God had a plan, and that if he followed it, it would turn out well for him and his people.

At the end of the 4th millennium bce, an urban culture once more appeared in Jericho, as in the rest of Palestine. Jericho became a walled town again, with its walls many times rebuilt. About 2300 bce there was once more a break in urban life.

Joshua walked around the city of Jericho for 7 days for a total of 13 times. God instructed Joshua to take 7 priests and all of the armed men to walk around Jericho. The armed men were positioned in front and behind the 7 priest. Joshua instructed the priest to blow their trumpets as they walked around the city.

The curse was pronounced rather against the rebuilding of its walls and gates, as danger would result to Israel from the likelihood that it would be held by foes.

Once there, Nehemiah defied the opposition of Judah’s enemies on all sides—Samaritans, Ammonites, Arabs and Philistines—and rebuilt the walls within 52 days, from the Sheep Gate in the North, the Hananeel Tower at the North West corner, the Fish Gate in the West, the Furnaces Tower at the Temple Mount’s South West …

Each of the three Synoptic Gospels tells of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion. The Gospel of Mark tells of the cure of a man named Bartimaeus healed by Jesus as he is leaving Jericho.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have all the people give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the people will go up, every man straight in.”