Yᵉrîychôw — Yerikho (Jericho); first Canaanite city encountered by Israel; walls fell (Joshua 6)
234 + 26 = 260
Joshua 2:1 — “Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men from Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, reconnoiter the region of Jericho.” So they set out, and they came to the house of a certain prostitute named Rahab and lodged there.”
Joshua 2:2 — “The king of Jericho was told, “Some men have come here tonight, Israelites, to spy out the country.””
Joshua 2:3 — “The king of Jericho thereupon sent orders to Rahab: “Produce the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole country.””
Joshua 3:16 — “The waters coming down from upstream piled up in a single heap a great way off, at Adam, the town next to Zarethan; and those flowing away downstream to the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) ran out completely. So the people crossed near Jericho.”
Joshua 4:13 — “About forty thousand shock troops went across, at GOD’s behest, to the steppes of Jericho for battle.”
| Jos | 2Ki | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 30 |