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• The Fall of Jericho

  The fall of Jericho is the biblical event in which Israel, led by Joshua, marched around Jericho, the first city it encountered after entering Canaan, for seven days and then shouted, whereupon the city's walls collapsed. The account is found in Joshua 6.

• Joshua 6

  Joshua 6 recounts how Israel marched around the city of Jericho for seven days, brought down its walls with trumpet blasts and a great shout, and took the city. Rahab the harlot and her family were spared, in keeping with the promise made by the spies.

• Battle of Ai

  The Battle of Ai is an event recorded in Joshua 7–8. After the fall of Jericho, Israel attacked the small city of Ai and was defeated once because of Achan's sin. Once the sin had been dealt with, Israel captured the city by means of an ambush.

• Valley of Achor

  The Valley of Achor is a valley near Jericho where Achan was stoned to death in Joshua 7. Its name means "trouble," and the books of Hosea and Isaiah later mention it again as a place of restoration and hope.

• Joshua 7

  Joshua 7 recounts how, after the fall of Jericho, Achan secretly took some of the things devoted to God, bringing about Israel's defeat at Ai. Exposed by the casting of lots, Achan is executed in the Valley of Achor.

• Achan

  Achan was a man of the tribe of Judah who appears in Joshua 7. During the fall of Jericho he secretly took items that had been devoted to God, bringing about Israel's defeat at Ai, and he was executed in the Valley of Achor.

• Ai (Place)

  Ai was a Canaanite city east of Bethel. It is known from the book of Joshua as the place where Israel suffered its first defeat after the fall of Jericho and which it then captured in a second attack.

• Ram's Horn Trumpet

  The ram's horn trumpet, called the shofar in Hebrew, is a trumpet made from the horn of a ram. It is best known from the account of the fall of Jericho in Joshua 6, in which priests blew it before the Ark of the Covenant.

• Riblah

  Riblah was a town in the land of Hamath in Syria. The kings of Egypt and Babylon used it as a military base, and the Bible records it as the place where Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, interrogated and punished Zedekiah, king of Judah.

• Ai

  Ai was a town in the central hill country of Canaan, east of Bethel. It is best known from Joshua 7–8 as the place where Israel was first defeated because of Achan's sin and then captured the city in a second battle.

• Joshua 2

  In this chapter Rahab, a harlot of Jericho, hides the two spies whom Joshua sent from Shittim. In return she receives their oath that her family will be spared when Israel attacks the land, with a scarlet cord serving as the sign.

• Jericho

  An oasis city in the Jordan Valley west of the Jordan River. It was the first city Israel captured after entering Canaan, as recounted in Joshua 6. In the New Testament it is the setting of the stories of Bartimaeus and Zacchaeus.

• Fall of the Northern Kingdom of Israel

  The fall of the northern kingdom of Israel was the late eighth-century BC event in which Assyria captured Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom, and deported its inhabitants. It is recorded in 2 Kings 17.

• Fall of Jerusalem

  The fall of Jerusalem was the event in which Jerusalem, the capital of the southern kingdom of Judah, fell to the army of Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and the temple was burned. It took place during the reign of King Zedekiah, bringing the kingdom of Judah to an end and marking the beginning of the Babylonian exile.

• The Fall

  The Fall is the Christian doctrine concerning the event in which the first humans, Adam and Eve, disobeyed God's command, bringing sin and death upon the human race, and concerning the condition into which humanity entered as a result.

• Destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70)

  The destruction of Jerusalem (AD 70) was the capture of Jerusalem and the burning of the Second Temple by the Roman army under Titus during the First Jewish–Roman War. The event profoundly changed both Judaism and early Christianity.

• Eating of the Forbidden Fruit

  The eating of the forbidden fruit is the event recorded in Genesis 3 in which Adam and Eve ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, which God had forbidden, and were driven out of the Garden of Eden. Christianity understands it as the beginning of the fall of humanity.

• Ishmael (son of Nethaniah)

  Ishmael son of Nethaniah was a military commander of the royal line of Judah who, after the fall of Jerusalem, killed Gedaliah, the Babylonian-appointed governor of Judah, at Mizpah.

• Jonathan (son of Kareah)

  Jonathan, son of Kareah and brother of Johanan, was one of the captains of the forces of Judah who came to Gedaliah, governor of Judah, at Mizpah after the fall of Jerusalem.

• Zephaniah (son of Maaseiah)

  Zephaniah son of Maaseiah was a priest who served as the second priest, ranking next to the high priest, during the reign of Zedekiah king of Judah. He was sent by the king as an envoy to Jeremiah and was executed at Riblah after the fall of Jerusalem.