![]() 6:22), implying that that section of the wall did not fall. This affirms the biblical record, which states that the house of Rahab, which was built against the city wall, was intact after the walls of Jericho fell (Josh. 5 Moreover, there were houses built on the rampart against the outer city wall. Interestingly, the German excavation team of 1907-09 discovered a portion of the wall on the north side of the city that had not fallen. Portions of the retaining, or revetment wall are still standing, and some of the fallen mudbricks from the outer wall are still visible at the base. Today the remains of these walls can be seen at Tell es-Sultan. Photo Credit: Tamar Hayardeni / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 ![]() Rahab’s house was likely in this area of the city. A section of the northern wall of Jericho which not collapse. 2 These walls had been constructed in the Middle Bronze age 3, and stood until the destruction of Jericho under Joshua in the Late Bronze Age, ca. At the top of the embankment, was another mudbrick wall. Excavators, Sellin and Watzinger, discovered that the retaining wall was 12-15 ft high, with a 20-26 ft high mudbrick wall on top of that. Between the two walls was a sloped embankment, with an upper wall encircling the inner city. The outer mud brick wall had been built atop a retaining wall. Jericho had not one wall, but two: an inner wall and an outer wall. Photo Credit: Associates for Biblical Research Bryan Wood points to collapsed mud bricks from the city wall that fell to the base of the retaining wall at Jericho. Photo Credit: Fullo88 / Wikimedia Commons / Public DomainĮxcavations at Tell es-Sultan, the site of Old Testament Jericho, reveal that it was an awe-inspiring city, with “walls up to the sky” (Deut. It is one of the oldest cities known to man. And that is exactly what the Bible (Joshua 3:16) says the Israelites did.” 1 Tell es-Sultan is the site of Old Testament Jericho. Any military force attempting to penetrate the central hill country from the east would, by necessity, first have to capture Jericho. “From Jericho one has access to the heartland of Canaan. This wasn’t just the first city they happened upon Jericho was strategically located at the entrance to the central highlands of Canaan. When the Israelites crossed the Jordan River under the leadership of Joshua, the first city they attacked was Jericho. In this article we’ll explore three things Joshua saw when he entered the Promised Land of Canaan. In this series, we’ve walked in the footsteps of Joseph, Peter, and Jesus to view the world they lived in. In a similar way, archaeology allows us to view the places where biblical events occurred and see the things that biblical people saw. This is because they can now picture the places where the events occurred. People who have traveled to the Holy Land often say they never read the Bible the same way again. ![]() The Bronze Age Temple complex and standing stone at Shechem.
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