Wilderness & Conquest
Old TestamentJoshua & Jericho
Crossing into Canaan
How the story unfolds
- 1
A new leader
Joshua succeeds Moses.
- 2
Crossing the Jordan
The river is crossed and stones are set up.
- 3
The walls of Jericho
A procession, trumpets, and the city taken.
Context & interpretation
Debated
Destruction layers at Tell es-Sultan are dated differently by different excavators; the chronology remains one of the field's live arguments.
Scriptured labels editorial context separately from Scripture, and never presents interpretation as consensus.