The Bible Story - Volume IV - Chapter 53 - Basil Wolverton - 1964

Basil Wolverton

WALLS OF JERICHO FALL, IT was on the tenth day of the first month (Nisan in the spring — not January in the winter) that Israel crossed the Jordan river and made camp in Canaan at a spot called Gilgal. The west border of the camp wasn't much more than a mile from Jericho, a thick-walled city swarming with enemy soldiers. (Joshua 4:19-24.) Israel's First Passover in Canaan. It had been just forty years before — minus five days — that Israel had fled from Egypt. (Exodus 12:18, 29-34, 51; Numbers 14:26-35; Deuteronomy 1:3; Joshua 5:6.) The exodus had been started after their observing the Passover. Now again it was almost time to prepare for another Passover, but before it should be observed, God told Joshua that most of the males of Israel should undergo a physical rite that had been required as a sign and seal of the covenant between the Creator and Israel. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library