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There were three different Jerichos, on three different sites, the Jericho of Joshua, the Jericho of Herod, and the Jericho of the Crusades. Er-Riha, the modern Jericho, dates from the time of the Crusades. Dr. Bliss has found in a hollow scooped out for some purpose or other near the foot of the biggest mound above the Sultan’s Spring specimens of Amorite or pre-Israelitish pottery precisely identical with what he had discovered on the site of ancient Lachish. He also traced in this place for a short distance a mud brick wall in situ, which he supposes to be the very wall that fell before the trumpets of Joshua. The wall is not far from the foot of the great precipice of Quarantania and its numerous caverns, and the spies of Joshua could easily have fled from the city and been speedily hidden in these fastnesses.
•JERIMOTH heights. (1.) One of the sons of Bela (1 Chronicles 7:7). (2.) 1 Chronicles 24:30, a Merarite Levite.
(3.) A Benjamite slinger who joined David at Ziklag (1 Chronicles 12:5). (4.) A Levitical musician under Heman his father (1 Chronicles 25:4). (5.) 1 Chronicles 27:19, ruler of Naphtali.