יְרִיחוֹ

Numbers 22:1 יְרֵחֽוֹ׃ ס of Jericho

Then the Israelites traveled on and camped in the plains of Moab near the Jordan, across from Jericho.

Numbers 26:3 יְרֵח֖וֹ of Jericho

So on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho, Moses and Eleazar the priest issued the instruction,

Numbers 26:63 יְרֵחֽוֹ׃ of Jericho

These were the ones numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest when they counted the Israelites on the plains of Moab by the Jordan, across from Jericho.

Numbers 31:12 יְרֵחֽוֹ׃ ס of Jericho

They brought the captives, spoils, and plunder to Moses, to Eleazar the priest, and to the congregation of Israel at the camp on the plains of Moab, by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 33:48 יְרֵחֽוֹ׃ of Jericho

They set out from the mountains of Abarim and camped on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Numbers 33:50 יְרֵח֖וֹ of Jericho

On the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho, the LORD said to Moses,

Numbers 34:15 יְרֵח֖וֹ of Jericho

These two and a half tribes have received their inheritance across the Jordan from Jericho, toward the sunrise.”

Numbers 35:1 יְרֵח֖וֹ of Jericho

Again the LORD spoke to Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho:

Numbers 36:13 יְרֵחֽוֹ׃ of Jericho

These are the commandments and ordinances that the LORD gave the Israelites through Moses on the plains of Moab by the Jordan across from Jericho.

Deuteronomy 32:49 יְרֵח֑וֹ Jericho

“Go up into the Abarim Range to Mount Nebo, in the land of Moab across from Jericho, and view the land of Canaan, which I am giving to the Israelites as their own possession.

Deuteronomy 34:1 יְרֵח֑וֹ Jericho

Then Moses went up from the plains of Moab to Mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, which faces Jericho. And the LORD showed him the whole land—from Gilead as far as Dan,

Here: The city that Joshua 6 will take first. Naming it fixes the viewpoint and points ahead to the next chapter of Israel's story, one that Moses will not see from the inside.

Deuteronomy 34:3 יְרֵח֛וֹ Jericho

the Negev, and the region from the Valley of Jericho (the City of Palms) all the way to Zoar.

Here: The oasis city west of the Jordan, opposite the plains of Moab where Israel was camped. It would be the first city Israel took in Joshua 6, so naming it points straight to what comes next.

Joshua 2:1 יְרִיח֑וֹ Jericho

Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, “Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho.” So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.

Here: Jericho was an oasis city near the Jordan fords and the first barrier on the way into Canaan. Its name may be linked to the moon (yareaḥ) or to 'fragrance' (reaḥ). Neither is certain.

Joshua 2:2 יְרִיח֖וֹ Jericho

And it was reported to the king of Jericho: “Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land.”

Joshua 2:3 יְרִיח֔וֹ Jericho

So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, “Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land.”

Here: Jericho, the oasis city just west of the Jordan near the Dead Sea. It was the first fortified city in Israel's path after the river crossing, so its king had the most reason to fear the camp across the river.

Joshua 3:16 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ Jericho

the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Here: The oasis city near the river's west bank above the Dead Sea, whose king and people already knew about Israel (ch. 2). Coming ashore facing it is a direct challenge.

Joshua 4:13 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ ס Jericho

About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.

Here: The oasis city a few miles west of the river and the first target of the campaign (Joshua 6). Israel camped at Gilgal on this valley floor (4:19; 5:10).

Joshua 4:19 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ Jericho

On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

Joshua 5:10 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ Jericho

On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

Joshua 5:13 בִּירִיחוֹ֒ at Jericho

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

Here: The Hebrew preposition usually means "in," but the city is still sealed shut (6:1), so here it means "at" or "in the area of" Jericho. Joshua is out near the city, perhaps looking it over, away from the camp at Gilgal.

Joshua 6:1 וִֽירִיחוֹ֙ and Jericho

Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.

Here: The city's name comes first, joined by 'and', before any verb. In Hebrew this order signals a background or side note: 'Now Jericho, meanwhile...' It pauses the action of 5:13–15 to describe the scene. Where the name comes from is uncertain: perhaps from yareaḥ, 'moon' (a moon-god link), or from a root meaning 'fragrance'.

Joshua 6:2 יְרִיח֖וֹ Jericho

And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.

Here: The walled oasis city near the Jordan crossing, the first stronghold west of the river and the gateway into the hill country.

Joshua 6:25 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ פ Jericho

And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.

Here: The city that now lies burned and under Joshua's curse (v. 26). The verse ends with a paragraph break (פ) in the Hebrew manuscripts.

Joshua 6:26 יְרִיח֔וֹ Jericho

At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”

Here: Naming the city adds emphasis: 'this city, Jericho'. The curse cannot be redirected to some other place.

Joshua 7:2 מִֽירִיח֗וֹ from Jericho

Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.

Joshua 8:2 לִֽירִיחוֹ֙ to Jericho

And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set up an ambush behind the city.”

Here: Recalls the first victory in the land, where everything was "devoted" (ḥerem) to the LORD and nothing could be kept (6:17–19).

Joshua 9:3 לִֽירִיח֖וֹ to Jericho

But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

Here: The oasis city in the Jordan Valley, the first city conquered west of the Jordan (ch. 6). It was totally destroyed and put under a curse (6:26).

Joshua 10:1 לִֽירִיחוֹ֙ to Jericho

Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction—doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.

Joshua 10:28 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ Jericho

On that day Joshua captured Makkedah and put it to the sword, along with its king. He devoted to destruction everyone in the city, leaving no survivors. So he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Here: Jericho, the first city devoted in the land (6:17–21). It serves as the model case. Joshua 6 never actually narrates the fate of Jericho's king, but 8:2 already uses 'as you did to Jericho and its king' as a formula.

Joshua 10:30 יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ ס Jericho

And the LORD also delivered that city and its king into the hand of Israel, and Joshua put all the people to the sword, leaving no survivors. And he did to the king of Libnah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

Joshua 12:9 יְרִיח֖וֹ Jericho

the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;

Joshua 13:32 יְרִיח֖וֹ of Jericho

These were the portions Moses had given them on the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho.

Here: The landmark city on the west bank. It is used to fix the spot: the camp lay directly across the river from it.

Joshua 16:1 יְרִיח֔וֹ יְרִיח֖וֹ מִירִיח֛וֹ of Jericho, Jericho, from Jericho

The allotment for the descendants of Joseph extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east, through the wilderness that goes up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

Joshua 16:7 בִּֽירִיח֔וֹ <on> Jericho

From Janoah it went down to Ataroth and Naarah, and then reached Jericho and came out at the Jordan.

Joshua 18:12 יְרִיח֜וֹ Jericho

On the north side their border began at the Jordan, went up past the northern slope of Jericho, headed west through the hill country, and came out at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

Here: The oasis city in the Jordan plain. Because the line runs along its northern shoulder, Jericho falls inside Benjamin, and Joshua 18:21 lists it as a Benjaminite town.

Joshua 18:21 יְרִיח֥וֹ Jericho

These were the cities of the clans of the tribe of Benjamin: Jericho, Beth-hoglah, Emek-keziz,

Here: The oasis town near the Jordan, today Tell es-Sultan. It comes first in the list. It is the town whose fall is told in Joshua 6, and Joshua laid a curse on anyone who rebuilt it (6:26). Here its site and the land around it are given to Benjamin.

Joshua 20:8 יְרִיחוֹ֙ of Jericho

And beyond the Jordan, east of Jericho, they designated Bezer on the wilderness plateau from the tribe of Reuben, Ramoth in Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan from the tribe of Manasseh.

Joshua 24:11 יְרִיחוֹ֒ יְ֠רִיחוֹ Jericho

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

2 Samuel 10:5 בִֽירֵח֔וֹ at Jericho

When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

1 Kings 16:34 יְרִיחֹ֑ה Jericho

In Ahab’s days, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.

Here: The first city Israel took in Canaan, which Joshua put under a ban and a curse (Joshua 6). The spelling here ends in -oh rather than the usual -o, a minor spelling variant.

2 Kings 2:4 יְרִיח֔וֹ יְרִיחֽוֹ׃ Jericho

And Elijah said to Elisha, “Please stay here, for the LORD has sent me on to Jericho.” But Elisha replied, “As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, I will not leave you.” So they went to Jericho.

2 Kings 2:5 בִּֽירִיחוֹ֮ [were] at Jericho

Then the sons of the prophets at Jericho came up to Elisha and said, “Do you know that the LORD will take your master away from you today?” “Yes, I know,” he replied. “Do not speak of it.”

2 Kings 2:15 בִּֽירִיחוֹ֙ [were] at Jericho

When the sons of the prophets who were watching him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and bowed down to the ground before him.

Here: Jericho is the city just west of the Jordan crossing. It was Joshua's first stop after Israel crossed the river (Joshua 3–6), and that history shapes this scene.

2 Kings 2:18 בִּירִיח֑וֹ in Jericho

When they returned to Elisha, who was staying in Jericho, he said to them, “Didn’t I tell you not to go?”

2 Kings 25:5 יְרֵח֑וֹ Jericho

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook him in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.

1 Chronicles 6:78 יְרֵחוֹ֮ of Jericho

From the tribe of Reuben east of the Jordan opposite Jericho they were given Bezer in the wilderness, Jahzah,

1 Chronicles 19:5 בִֽירֵח֔וֹ at Jericho

When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”

2 Chronicles 28:15 יְרֵח֥וֹ Jericho

Then the men who were designated by name arose, took charge of the captives, and provided from the plunder clothing for the naked. They clothed them, gave them sandals and food and drink, anointed their wounds, and put all the feeble on donkeys. So they brought them to Jericho, the City of Palms, to their brothers. Then they returned to Samaria.

Here: A spelling of Jericho found in Chronicles. Jericho lay in the Jordan valley on the border zone between the northern kingdom and Judah: a handover point, not deep inside Judah.

Ezra 2:34 יְרֵח֔וֹ Jericho

the men of Jericho, 345;

Here: The oasis town in the Jordan valley, north of the Dead Sea and east of Jerusalem. The spelling here, without the middle yod, is a variant also found in Numbers, Kings and Nehemiah. It is the same place.

Nehemiah 3:2 יְרֵח֑וֹ ס Jericho

The men of Jericho built next to Eliashib, and Zaccur son of Imri built next to them.

Nehemiah 7:36 יְרֵח֔וֹ Jericho

the men of Jericho, 345;

Jeremiah 39:5 יְרֵחוֹ֒ Jericho

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho. They seized him and brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon at Riblah in the land of Hamath, where he pronounced judgment on him.

Here: The oasis town about 25 km east of Jerusalem, near the Jordan fords. Crossing there would have led toward Ammon and the lands east of the river.

Jeremiah 52:8 יְרֵח֑וֹ Jericho

but the army of the Chaldeans pursued the king and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho, and his whole army deserted him.

Here: Jericho is the oasis town near the Jordan crossings, roughly 25 km east and well below Jerusalem. To an Israelite ear it was also the place where the conquest of the land began (Joshua 2–6).