🏰a thick wall🥾two scouts🧵a red cord📯ram's horns🧱stones and dust
The story of Jericho.
The big ideaThe Bible tells how God's plan for Jericho was strange, and the people trusted it.
How it works
The Bible tells how Joshua led Israel to the land near the river Jordan. In front of them stood Jericho, a city with tall, thick walls and its gates shut tight.
Joshua sent two scouts. A woman named Rahab hid them under bundles of flax on her flat roof, and she asked them to be kind to her family. They promised, and she hung a red cord in her window.
Then Joshua listened to God's plan, and it was a strange one. For six days the army marched around the city once a day without a word, with seven priests blowing ram's horns and the ark carried behind.
On the seventh day they marched around seven times. Then the people shouted, and the wall fell down flat. Rahab's family was led out safely.
Times around Jericho each day.The story in order.
Example 1: Add up the laps
On each of the first six days the army marched around the city once.
That is 6 times in all for the first six days.
On the seventh day they marched around seven times.
6 + 7 = 13
So the army went around Jericho 13 times in all.
Six days of one, then seven.
Example 2: How Rahab helped
The king sent soldiers to her door, and she took the scouts up to her flat roof.
She hid them under bundles of flax that were drying in the sun.
She told the soldiers the men had already gone, and later she lowered the scouts down on a rope.
Example 3: The red cord
The scouts told Rahab to hang a red cord in her window.
After the wall fell, the scouts hurried to the house with the red cord.
They led Rahab's family out safely, past the fallen stones, as they had promised.
Example 4: Put it in order
First Joshua sent two scouts, and then Rahab hid them.
Then the army marched for six days.
On the seventh day they marched seven times, and last the walls fell.
Words to know
scout
Someone sent ahead to look, then come back and tell.
ram's horn
A horn from a ram, used as a trumpet.
promise
Words you say that you will keep.
patience
Waiting calmly, without hurrying or giving up.
Watch out
On the seventh day the army went around seven times, not once.
Nobody climbed over the wall. The army marched, and nobody said a word.
Rahab told the soldiers the scouts had already gone. She did not tell them where the scouts were.
There were two scouts, and the army marched for six days before the seventh day.
Try it
How many scouts did Joshua send?
What did Rahab hang in her window?
How many times did the army go round on the seventh day?
What is a scout?
How many times round in all? 6 + 7
Answers: 1. Two · 2. A red cord · 3. Seven times · 4. Someone sent ahead to look, then come back and tell · 5. 13
Try at homeWith a grown-up, talk about a time when a plan sounded strange but turned out well. Why did people trust it?
For grown-upsWalk a lap round a table together, saying nothing, and count to seven. Then ask what Rahab did to help the scouts, and how the story shows people trusting a strange plan.
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