Raise the closed city, march around it with the people, then go in through the fallen wall.
Six days of marching, then the shout.
Model · the plain of Jericho
The Walls of JerichoThe Walls of Jericho
We're building the Walls of Jericho
Jericho was a closed, strong city. The Lord told Joshua how to take it: march around the city for six days, and on the seventh day the people were to shout. Build the scene, then go into the city.
Choose a piece, then drag it to the golden spot. You can also use the “Place the piece” button. Turn the scene with “Look”.
Press “Walk around” to walk on the plain. After the wall falls, press “Enter the city”: follow the path around the city, cross over the stones of the wall and reach the square in the middle of the city. Walk with W A S D or the arrow keys, and hold the right mouse button to look around. On a touch screen, walk with the joystick and swipe on the right side to look around. Press “Done” to go back to the model.
The Bible says Jericho was shut up, that seven priests carried seven trumpets before the Ark, and that the wall fell down. It doesn't say what the city looked like. The walls, towers, houses and gate in the model are choices made for the model. The people are simple figures.
Jericho lies in the Jordan valley and is called “the city of palm trees.”
Deuteronomy 34:3
3 And the south, and the plain of the valley of Jericho, the city of palm trees, unto Zoar.
The people camped at Gilgal, east of Jericho. There Joshua set up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan.
Joshua 4:19
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 6:1
1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Rahab hid Israel's spies and let them down by a rope through the window, because her house was on the city wall. The Bible doesn't say what happened to the wall around her house; the model leaves it standing.
Joshua 2:15
15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
The Lord commanded: for six days march around the city once a day, and on the seventh day seven times. Seven priests went with seven trumpets of rams' horns, in front of the Ark.
Joshua 6:4
4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
The people were not allowed to shout until the day Joshua would say, “Shout!”
Joshua 6:10
10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
The walls didn't fall because the people were strong, but because they obeyed the Lord. “By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, after they were compassed about seven days.”
Joshua 6:20
20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
Joshua 6:27
27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.