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“Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”

 
Fine Arts Dictionary: “Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho”

An American spiritual, based on the story of Joshua, the successor of Moses in the Old Testament, who led the Israelites into the Promised Land. It begins:


Joshua fit [fought] the battle of Jericho,

Jericho, Jericho;

Joshua fit the battle of Jericho,

And the walls came tumbling down.


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Fine Arts Dictionary. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., Joseph F. Kett, and James Trefil. Copyright © 2002 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin. All rights reserved.  Read more

 

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