Jericho

Jericho, an ancient Canaanite city famously conquered by the Israelites under Joshua's leadership.

The name Jericho means “his moon; his month; his sweet smell”

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Summary

A location first mentioned at Numbers 22:1; referred to as Jericho (יְרִיחוֹ), City of Palms (עִיר הַתְּמָרִים), or Jericho (Ἱεριχώ).

Location

Identified as: Tell el Alayiq
Certainty: Widely agreed (100% of scholarship)
Coordinates: 31.852° N, 35.436° E

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Events

Dates are approximate

Healing Blind Bartimaeusc. AD 30
Zaccheus Converted and Parable of the Poundsc. AD 30

Glossary entries

Jericho City of Palms

Alternative names

Mentions

Numbers 22:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.
Numbers 26:3יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,
Numbers 26:63יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.
Numbers 31:12יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Numbers 33:48יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Numbers 33:50יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,
Numbers 34:15יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”
Numbers 35:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:
Numbers 36:13יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.
Deuteronomy 32:49יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.
Deuteronomy 34:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,
Deuteronomy 34:3עִיר הַתְּמָרִים · City of Palms
…the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.
Joshua 2:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.
Joshua 2:2יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”
Joshua 2:3יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”
Joshua 3:16יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
…the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
Joshua 4:13יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.
Joshua 4:19יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
Joshua 5:10יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.
Joshua 5:13יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”
Joshua 6:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
Joshua 6:2יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.
Joshua 6:25יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.
Joshua 6:26יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
Joshua 7:2יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
Joshua 8:2יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”
Joshua 9:3יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
Joshua 10:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.
Joshua 10:28יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Joshua 10:30יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And the LORD also delivered that city and its king into the hand of Israel, and Joshua put all the people to the sword, leaving no survivors. And he did to the king of Libnah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
Joshua 12:9יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
…the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
Joshua 13:32יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
These were the portions Moses had given them on the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.
Joshua 16:1יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.
Joshua 16:7יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.
Joshua 18:12יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
Joshua 18:21יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
These were the cities of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,
Joshua 20:8יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.
Joshua 24:11יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
Judges 1:16עִיר הַתְּמָרִים · City of Palms
Now the descendants of Moses’ father-in-law, the Kenite, went up with the men of Judah from the City of Palms to the Wilderness of Judah in the Negev near Arad. They went to live among the people.
Judges 3:13עִיר הַתְּמָרִים · City of Palms
After enlisting the Ammonites and Amalekites to join forces with him, Eglon attacked and defeated Israel, taking possession of the City of Palms.
2 Samuel 10:5יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
1 Kings 16:34יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
2 Kings 2:4יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.
2 Kings 2:5יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”
2 Kings 2:15יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
When the sons of the prophets who were watching him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.
2 Kings 2:18יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”
2 Kings 25:5יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
…but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
1 Chronicles 6:78יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,
1 Chronicles 19:5יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
2 Chronicles 28:15עִיר הַתְּמָרִים · City of Palms; יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.
Ezra 2:34יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
…the men of Jericho, 345;
Nehemiah 3:2יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
The men of Jericho built next to Eliashib, and Zaccur son of Imri built next to them.
Nehemiah 7:36יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
…the men of Jericho, 345;
Jeremiah 39:5יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.
Jeremiah 52:8יְרִיחוֹ · Jericho
…but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.
Matthew 20:29Ἱεριχώ · Jericho
As they were leaving Jericho, a large crowd followed Him.
Mark 10:46Ἱεριχώ · Jericho
Next, they came to Jericho. And as Jesus and His disciples were leaving Jericho with a large crowd, a blind beggar named Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, was sitting beside the road.
Luke 10:30Ἱεριχώ · Jericho
Jesus took up this question and said, “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho when he fell into the hands of robbers. They stripped him, beat him, and went away, leaving him half dead.
Luke 18:35Ἱεριχώ · Jericho
As Jesus drew near to Jericho, a blind man was sitting beside the road, begging.
Luke 19:1Ἱεριχώ · Jericho
Then Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through.
Hebrews 11:30Ἱεριχώ · Jericho
By faith the walls of Jericho fell, after the people had marched around them for seven days.