





The Walls of JerichoWonder V of XVII · Muri IerichoMirabilia Dei · V
The Walls of Jericho
Muri Iericho-
Prologue
The fifth wonder
The Walls of Jericho, told in 5 scenes — A City Shut Up, Seven Trumpets, The Seventh Day, The Great Shout and The House That Stood.
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Scene I
A City Shut Up
Josue (Joshua) 6 · 1Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.
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Scene II
Seven Trumpets
Josue (Joshua) 6 · 6Let seven other priests take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of the Lord.
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Scene III
The Seventh Day
Josue (Joshua) 6 · 15But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city, as it was ordered, seven times.
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Scene IV
The Great Shout
Josue (Joshua) 6 · 20So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down.
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Scene V
The House That Stood
Josue (Joshua) 6 · 22–25But Josue saved Rahab the harlot and her father's house, and all she had … because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy out Jericho.
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The verse
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.
Hebrews 11 · 30
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