The Entry into Canaan – Jericho and Ai
c. 1400 BC (early dating) – alternatively 13th century BC
Israel crosses the Jordan opposite Jericho, camps at Gilgal, takes Jericho and Ai and renews the covenant at Ebal and Gerizim (Josh 3–8).
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The Entry into Canaan – Jericho and Ai
c. 1400 BC (early dating) – alternatively 13th century BC
Israel crosses the Jordan opposite Jericho, camps at Gilgal, takes Jericho and Ai and renews the covenant at Ebal and Gerizim (Josh 3–8).
Trip stops (6)
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Shittim (Abel-shittim)
Josh 2:1 + 3:1
Israel's last camp on the plains of Moab east of the Jordan. From here Joshua sends the two spies to Jericho, and from here the people set out for the river. Probably Tell el-Hammam.
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Crossing the Jordan
Josh 3:14-17
When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant step into the flooded river, the water stops far upstream at the city of Adam, beside Zarethan (Tell ed-Damiyeh, about 28 km to the north), and the people cross on dry ground opposite Jericho.
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Gilgal
Josh 4:19–5:12
The first camp west of the Jordan. The twelve stones from the river are set up as a memorial, the men are circumcised, and the first Passover in the land is kept; the manna ceases. The exact location is uncertain.
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Jericho
Josh 6
Israel marches around the city once a day for six days and seven times on the seventh. At the trumpet blast and the shout of the people the wall falls down. Rahab and her family are spared. Tell es-Sultan.
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Ai
Josh 7–8:29
The first attack fails because of Achan's theft of devoted goods. In the second attack Joshua sets an ambush west of the city, lures the men of Ai out along the road to the wilderness and takes the city. Often identified with et-Tell, but the location is disputed.
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Shechem – Ebal and Gerizim
Josh 8:30-35
Joshua builds an altar to the Lord on Mount Ebal and writes the law on stones. Half of the people stand in front of Gerizim, half in front of Ebal, and the law is read aloud with the blessing and the curse (cf. Deut 27).