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Перевод: Jericho

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Тезаурус:

1. Before ever the action begins he knows and tells Joshua what the outcome will be: "See, I have given into your hand Jericho, with its king and mighty men of valour."
2. The references to Jericho in both Numbers and Deuteronomy lead us to expect that once the people have crossed the river the city will be the first obstacle in the way of their advance deeper into the Land.
3. At the end of the book of Deuteronomy Moses climbs up to the summit of Mount Nebo "which is opposite Jericho" (Deut.
4. We, the readers of the narrative, have been waiting for this moment ever since the concluding words of the book of Numbers: "These are the commandments and the ordinances which the Lord commanded by Moses to the people of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho."
5. We will see that happen on the site of Jericho in our fifth chapter.
6. The capture of Jericho is clearly God's doing, and the slaughter which follows it belongs to his intentions.
7. The Jericho of the story is decidedly not deserted.
8. Near the end of the book of Joshua a passing reference is made to a battle, which may or may not belong to the same account as chapter 2: "And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, and the men of Jericho fought against you"
9. The enemy is on the other side, shut within the walls of Jericho, and the Israelites are ready for war.
10. The vigour and profundity of the Old Testament's own challenge is at once realized when we recall how far the ruins of Jericho are from Eden, or from that remarkable declaration of faith in Genesis 1, and how completely the smoke of its destruction hides the last of the promises given to Abraham in Genesis 12.
11. If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho, should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city, like them hacked to pieces?
12. The teaching of Deuteronomy and the theology of the stories of Jericho and Ai and the rest (for the book of Joshua gives us lists of cities put to the ban) are also understandable in terms of ancient conduct of war in that part of the world, or with regard to our own contemporary warfare and religious belief and practice.
13. When the invading Israelite tribes crossed the Jordan and arrived at Jericho, they probably did see no-one there, for the simple reason that Jericho was a deserted ruin.