Which was the Canaanite town whose walls fell at the blast of Joshua's trumpets?
"Joshua & the Battle of Jericho Joshua & the Battle of Jericho is a 1992 Christian video game published by Wisdom Tree. The game is themed on the Battle of Jericho described in the Book of Joshua, in which the Israelites topple the defensive wall of the city of Jericho by encircling it and blowing their trumpets. As a tile-based action puzzle game, ""Joshua & the Battle of Jericho"" was one of the few Christian video games of its day that did not adhere strictly to a Bible quiz format. However, between game levels the player is asked five multiple"
"Ai (Canaan) Ai ( ""hā-‘āy"" ""heap of ruins""; Douay-Rheims: Hai) was a Canaanite city. According to the Book of Joshua in the Hebrew Bible, it was conquered by the Israelites on their second attempt. The ruins of the city are popularly thought to be in the modern-day archeological site Et-Tell. According to Genesis, Abraham built an altar between Bethel and Ai. In the Book of Joshua, chapters 7 and 8, the Israelites attempt to conquer Ai on two occasions. The first, in Joshua 7, fails. The biblical account portrays the failure as being due to a prior sin of Achan,"
"at Timnath-heres, in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. The prevailing scholarly view is that Joshua is not a factual account of historical events. The apparent setting of Joshua is the 13th century BCE, a time of widespread city-destruction, but with a few exceptions (Hazor, Lachish) the destroyed cities are not the ones the Bible associates with Joshua, and the ones it does associate with him show little or no sign of even being occupied at the time. Archaeologists generally agree that the Israelites had Canaanite origins:the culture of the earliest Israelite settlements is Canaanite, their cult-objects"
"Yosef is located next to the ancient city of Gezer. Gezer was a significant Caananite city during the Bronze Age and Israelite city during the Iron Age. The city is mentioned in the Merneptah Stele, dating from the end of the 13th century BCE, and according to the Bible, Joshua defeated the King of Gezer in his battles for Caanan (Joshua 10:33). The surrounding valleys and fields were the site of major battles between Maccabee forces and Seleucids at the Battle of Emmaus during the Hellenistic Period and between the Crusaders, led by Baldwin IV, and the Ayyubids from Egypt,"
"other gods () and, as a result, not being able to drive out the Jebusites (). The Israelites did not drive all of the Canaanite tribes out in the lifetime of Joshua. The books of Joshua and Judges (Chapters 1) mention towns that could not be defeated. According to 2 Samuel, the Israelites occupied Canaan but the complete seizure took place only when David defeated the Jebusites in Jerusalem and made it the capital of the Kingdom of Israel. () God states that the house, throne and kingdom of David and his offspring (called ""the one who will build a"
"them to work forever in these trades (). Theologian John Gill suggests that this curse was a particular example of the curse which Noah inflicted on all of Canaan: In retaliation for allying with the Israelites, the city was later besieged by a coalition of five other Amorite kings led by Adonizedek, king of Jerusalem, along with Hoham of Hebron, Piram of Jarmuth, Japhia of Lachish, and Debir of Eglon. The Gibeonites appealed to Joshua, who led the subsequent victory over the Amorites amid miraculous circumstances, including deadly hailstones and the suspension of the movement of the sun and moon,"
"Lord fought for Israel"" (). God also fought for the Israelites in this battle, for he hurled huge hailstones from the sky which killed more Canaanites than those which the Israelites slaughtered. From there on, Joshua was able to lead the Israelites to several victories, securing much of the land of Canaan. He presided over the Israelite gatherings at Gilgal and Shiloh which allocated land to the tribes of Israel (Joshua 14:1-5 and 18:1-10), and the Israelites rewarded him with the Ephraimite city of Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah, where he settled (Joshua 19:50). When he was ""old and well advanced in"
"one of 31 Canaanite cities the Bible lists as having been conquered by Joshua; the modern Arabic name being a derivation of the ancient name by way of its Hebrew form, or possibly its original Canaanite form, whereby the ""r"" sound was replaced with a ""l"". French explorer Victor Guérin also argued that Talluza was the site of ancient ""Thirza"". Later Conder & Kitchener suggested that Tayasir was a more likely candidate, however, today Tell el-Farah (North), northeast of modern Nablus is generally accepted as the site of Tirzah. When Guérin visited Talluza in 1870, he described it as being"
"Jarmuth Jarmuth was the name of two cities in the land of Canaan. The one was an Amorite city in Canaan at the time of the Israelite settlement recorded in the Hebrew Bible. According to , its king, Piram, was one of five kings who formed an alliance to attack Gibeon in response to Gibeon's tolerance of the Israelite settlement under Joshua. This Jarmuth is generally identified a modern site variously called Tel Jarmuth, Khirbet el-Yarmûk, or Tel Yarmut. This site is located on the south of Beit Shemesh, near Bayt Nattif. Another Jarmuth became a Levitical city given to"
"a dependency of Jerusalem, and was probably not fortified at the time. The identification of the ancient Canaanite city of Gibeon with modern al-Jib, conjectured since the 17th century, was proved by Hebrew inscriptions unearthed in 1956. In a 2017 paper, Colin Humphreys and Graeme Waddington suggested that the biblical story of the Israelites' victory over Gibeon may be identified with an annular eclipse which occurred on 30 October 1207 BC. After the destruction of Jericho and Ai, the people of Gibeon (Hivites) sent ambassadors to trick Joshua and the Israelites into making a treaty with them. According to the"
"Joshua simply didn't happen, and that the Israelites actually originated as a subculture in Canaanite society. Some biblical scholars believe that the accounts in the Book of Joshua are cobbled together from folk memory of disconnected battles, with numerous different aggressors, which occurred over a time period of over 200 years. According to the Second Book of Samuel, the Jebusites still had control of Jerusalem at the time of King David, but David wished to take control of the city. Understandably the Jebusites contested his attempt to do this, and since Jebus was the strongest fortress in Canaan they gloated"
"and were influenced by the surrounding civilizations of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Minoan Crete, and Syria. During Late Bronze Age 1550–1400 BCE, the Canaanite cities became vassals to the Egyptian New Kingdom who held power until the 1178 BCE Battle of Djahy (Canaan) during the wider Bronze Age collapse. Modern archaeologists dispute parts of the Biblical tradition, the latest thinking being that the Israelites emerged from a dramatic social transformation that took place in the people of the central hill country of Canaan around 1200 BCE, with no signs of violent invasion or even of peaceful infiltration of a clearly"
"and surrounded by mud-brick defensive walls were established and most of these cities relied on nearby agricultural hamlets for their food needs. Archaeological finds from the early Canaanite era have been found at Tel Megiddo, Jericho, Tel al-Far'a (Gaza), Bisan, and Ai (Deir Dibwan/Ramallah District), Tel an Nasbe (al-Bireh) and Jib (Jerusalem). The Canaanite city-states held trade and diplomatic relations with Egypt and Syria. Parts of the Canaanite urban civilization were destroyed around 2300 BCE, though there is no consensus as to why. Incursions by nomads from the east of the Jordan River who settled in the hills followed soon"
"in 1995. The city's name ""Tubas"" derives from the Canaanite word ""Tuba Syoys"" or ""illuminating star"". Tubas was identified by Edward Robinson to be the Canaanite/Israelite town of ""Thebez"" mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in the Book of Judges. Thebez was ruled by King Abimelech of Shechem. When the people of Shechem (at that time a Canaanite city) revolted against him, Thebez joined the revolt. The biblical narrative relates that Abimelech attempted to destroy Thebez in response to its participation in the revolt and when he and his army attacked a tower in the town, a woman hurled a millstone"
"is unable to dislodge the Jebusites from Jerusalem and was forced to cohabit, while the Manassites, another of the twelve tribes, lack the strength to occupy several Canaan towns. Other bastions of resistance dot the landscape. Even after Joshua's death, the land is only partially conquered with the Canaanites remaining a significant external threat. Critics argue that Joshua never lives to see the full territory God promises him and that the substantial resistance put up by the indigenous population violates God's promise of battles in which no enemy was his equal. Apologists cite the text as saying that the prophecy"
"trees and terebinths grow on the mountainside and piles of large ashlar boulders, covered with lichen, attest to the presence of a defensive wall around the city in antiquity. According to the biblical narrative, when Joshua captured the city from the Canaanites, the city and environs became the inheritance of Judah. Excavations at the foot of the northern slope exposed a Byzantine building from the fifth–sixth centuries. Remains from Iron Age II were uncovered in another dig at the foot of the northern slope, and walls dating to the Middle Bronze Age were discovered in probe trenches. Potsherds dating to"
"biblical Tophel). The city is mentioned in Book of Numbers 14:45 as the site of an Israelite defeat: The city is then mentioned in Book of Numbers 21:2-3 as the site of an Israelite victory: Hormah is also mentioned in Book of Judges 1:17: Hormah Hormah (meaning ""broken rock"", ""banned"", or ""devoted to destruction""), also known by its Canaanite name Zephath (Tsfat צפת), is an unidentified city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible in relation to several conflicts between the migrant Israelite people seeking to enter the Promised Land and the Amalekites and the Canaanites who dwelt at that time in"
"the conquest tradition of Joshua is a pious fiction."" Eglon, Canaan According to the Book of Joshua, Eglon was a Canaanite city, whose king Debir joined a confederacy against Gibeon when that city made peace with Israel. The five kings involved were slain and Eglon was later conquered and its inhabitants condemned to destruction. It was thereafter included in the territory of the Tribe of Judah, although it is not mentioned outside of the book of Joshua. According to K. Van Bekkum, the location of Eglon is unknown, but the most plausible candidate is Tel Eiton. According to Carl S."
"""Crystal Mines"" the player character is a gun-wielding robot who mines a newly discovered exoplanet, Joshua is a tribal leader of Israel who infiltrates and pillages the city of Jericho. He attacks enemies and destroys obstacles with blasts from a shofar (a Jewish ceremonial horn). Enemies include Amorites, Hittites, and other Canaanites; Balaam features as a slightly more powerful enemy. Joshua's trumpet blasts (called ""toots"" in-game) also destroy blocks of Jericho's wall; ""Israelite discontent"", ""Achan's sin"", and ""foreign idols"" (cult images) are likewise represented by destructible tiles. The trumpet blasts are symbolized by white quavers. Occasionally, destroying a block with"
"of Judea, appealing for assistance in rebuilding the Jewish temple in Elephantine, which had recently been badly damaged by an antisemitic rampage on the part of a segment of the Elephantine community. In the course of this appeal, the Jewish inhabitants of Elephantine speak of the antiquity of the damaged temple: The community also appealed for aid to Sanballat I, a Samaritan potentate, and his sons Delaiah and Shelemiah, as well as Johanan ben Eliashib. Both Sanballat and Johanan are mentioned in the Book of Nehemiah, , . There was a response of both governors (Bagoas and Delaiah) which gave"
"Timnath-heres Timnath-heres or Timnath-serah () was the town given by the Israelites to Joshua according to the Hebrew Bible. He requested it and the people gave it to him ""at the order of the Lord"". He built up the town and lived in it (). According to the Septuagint version of the Book of Joshua, Joshua placed there ""the stone knives, with which he had circumcised the children of Israel"". On his death, he was buried there (). Jewish tradition also places the tomb of Caleb there. The town was located in the mountainous region of Ephraim, north of Mount"
"the Ark compassed the city seven times and, with a great shout, Jericho's wall fell down flat and the people took the city. After the defeat at Ai, Joshua lamented before the Ark. When Joshua read the Law to the people between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal, they stood on each side of the Ark. We next hear of the Ark in Bethel where it was being cared for by the priest Phineas the grandson of Aaron (where 'Bethel' is translated 'the House of God' in the King James Version). According to this verse it was consulted by the people"
"importance. The tensions between the ruling family of Sanballat and Jerusalem under the governorship of Nehemiah are documented in the Bible (, ). Samaria became a Hellenistic town in 332 BC and thousands of Macedonian soldiers were settled there following a revolt by the Samaritans. Three 13 m diameter round towers dating to that period have been excavated (the first two by Harvard who attributed them to the Israelite period) and a later, massive, fortification wall with square towers. These fortifications were breached during the destruction of the city by John Hyrcanus in 108. Traces of the destruction wrought by"
"place around Jerusalem to the plains on the west. According to the Mishnah, the town of Ono was encompassed by a wall before the Israelite conquest of Canaan under Joshua. Not succeeding in their attempts to deter Nehemiah from rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem, Sanballat and Tobiah resorted to stratagem, and pretending to wish a conference with him, they invited him to meet them at Ono. Four times they made the request, and every time Nehemiah refused to come. Their objective was to take him prisoner. Ono, Benjamin Ono () was a biblical town of Benjamin in the ""plain of"
"capture the city of Ai, but fails (Joshua 7). A second attempt, advised by God, succeeds. The city is set on fire and all the inhabitants are killed (Joshua 8). Several kings ally together to fight the Israelites. The people of Gibeon, learning of the city's destruction, tricks the Israelites into a peace-treaty. When Joshua learns of the trickery, he curses the Gibeonites (Joshua 9). When the king of Jerusalem hears of the treaty, he and several other kings attack Gibeon, who then call on Joshua for help. God attacks Joshua's enemies with hailstones, the Israelites are victorious, and the"
"of demolished buildings from Qalunya are present near Motza, covered in vegetation, just off the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The town of Mevaseret Zion today is expanding upon some of the territory of former Qalunya. Qalunya is identified with the Canaanite and later Israelite town of Mozah, which according to the Hebrew Bible was allotted by Joshua to the Tribe of Benjamin (). Its name was found stamped on pottery handles in Tell en-Nasbeh. During the First and Second Temple periods Mozah was a Jewish village known for its willows, whose branches were used at the Temple"
"by the tribe of Ephraim and the House of Joseph, while the Galilee was associated with the tribe of Naphtali, the most eminent tribe of northern Israel. At the time of the Kingdom of Samaria, the Galilee was populated by northern tribes of Israel, but following the Babylonian exile the region became Jewish. During the Second Temple period relations between the Jews and Samaritans remained tense. In 120 BCE the Hasmonean king Yohanan Hyrcanos I destroyed the Samaritan temple on Mount Gerizim, due to the resentment between the two groups over a disagreement of whether Mount Moriah in Jerusalem or"
"shouted to make the walls fall down (). This account from the Book of Joshua is one event in the larger narrative of the Israelite conquest of the biblical Canaan. Wall of Jericho The Wall of Jericho was a Pre-Pottery Neolithic A (PPNA) defensive or flood protection wall suggested to date to approximately 8000 BCE. If interpreted as an ""urban fortification"", the Wall of Jericho is the oldest city wall discovered by archaeologists anywhere in the world. It is built of undressed stones and is located at the archaeological mound known as Tell es-Sultan, in the city of Jericho on"
"Kedesh The ruins of the ancient Canaanite city of Kedesh (alternate spellings: Cadesh, Cydessa) are located 3 km northeast of the modern Kibbutz Malkiya in Israel on the Israeli-Lebanese border. Kedesh was first documented in the Book of Joshua as a Canaanite citadel conquered by the Israelites under the leadership of Joshua. Ownership of Kedesh was turned over by lot to the tribe of Naphtali and subsequently, at the command of God, Kedesh was set apart by Joshua as a Levitical city and one of the Cities of Refuge along with Shechem and Kiriath Arba (Hebron) (). In the 8th"
"17th century BCE, the Canaanites had built massive walls (4 and 5 ton boulders, 26 feet high) to protect their ancient water system, found inside the City of David on the eastern side of Jerusalem. Following the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, Jerusalem was divided into two parts. The western portion, populated primarily by Jews, came under Israeli rule, while the eastern portion, populated mainly by Muslim and Christian Palestinians, came under Jordanian rule. Arabs living in such western Jerusalem neighbourhoods as Katamon or Malha either fled or were in some cases forced out; the same fate befell Jews in the eastern"
"Joshua conflates several independent battles between disparate groups over the centuries, and artificially attributes them to a single leader, Joshua. However, there are a few cases where the biblical record is not contradicted by the archaeological record. For example, stratum in Tel Hazor, found in a destruction layer from around 1200 BCE, shows signs of catastrophic fire, and cuneiform tablets found at the site refer to monarchs named ""Ibni Addi"", where ""Ibni"" may be the etymological origin of ""Yavin"" (""Jabin""), the Canaanite leader referred to in the Hebrew Bible. The city also show signs of having been a magnificent Canaanite"
"to the Mishnah, the town of Yodfat was encompassed by a wall before the Israelite conquest of Canaan under Joshua. By the first century CE Yodfat had expanded to encompass an area of 50 dunams (13 acres). Its siege and subsequent destruction in 67 CE are described in Josephus Flavius' The Wars of the Jews, his chronicle of the Great Jewish Revolt against the Romans. Led by future emperor Vespasian, three Roman legions — Legio V ""Macedonica"", X ""Fretensis"", and XV ""Apollinaris"" — besieged Yodfat, meeting strong Jewish resistance. After 47 days the city fell by treachery, and Josephus describes"
"Hebrew people included the land of the Jebusites. According to the Book of Joshua, Adonizedek led a confederation of Jebusites, and the tribes from the neighbouring cities of Jarmut, Lachish, Eglon and Hebron against Joshua, but was soundly defeated and killed. However, states that Judah could not dislodge the Jebusites, who were living in Jerusalem (""to this day the Jebusites live there with the people of Judah""). portrays the Jebusites as continuing to dwell at Jerusalem, within the territory otherwise occupied by the Tribe of Benjamin. Certain modern archaeologists now believe that the conquest of Canaan by the Israelites under"