The biblical answer would be 600,000, as this is the number of fighting men said to have reached Canaan. According to Joshua 6:3, all the fighting men of Israel were to surround Jericho. However the following account seems to imply a much smaller number who took part.
However, archaeologists say that there was no city at Jericho at the relevant time; therefore there was no conquest of Jericho. Israel Finkelstein said, "Today more than 90% of scholars agree that there was no Exodus from Egypt, 80% feel that that the Conquest of the Land did not take place as described in The Bible ..."
AnswerJoshua 6 states that the men of war walked around the walls of Jericho. This would have equaled around 600,000 people.According to the biblical account, Jericho was the first city the Israelites captured.
The town of Jericho was taken in the military campaign led by Joshua, in the Battle of Jericho described in the Book of Joshua in the Bible. It is known for its miraculous conquest where the walls of Jericho fell down after the Israelites marched around the city seven times blowing trumpets.
In the old Testament,the Bible counted out women. And so anytime the Isrealites were going out to fight, women were left out. This means that those who went to Jericho were all fighing men and the biblical number was 600,000 who said to have surrounded JERICHO.
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In the Book of Joshua, the Israelites attacked Jericho and killed every man, woman and child there, save for the prostitute, Rahab. However, archaeologists say that there was no military conquest as described in the Bible. They say that the city of Jericho had been abandoned long before 1400 BCE (when the attack should have taken place) and that there was at most just a small, unfortified mud-brick village where Jericho had once stood. The Israelites did not attack Jericho and did not kill anyone there.
Before the Israelites went to Jericho, they camped near the Jordan River at a place called Shittim. This location served as their last encampment before crossing into the Promised Land. From Shittim, they prepared for the crossing of the Jordan River, which ultimately led them to the conquest of Jericho.
According to the Bible story in the Book of Joshua, the walls of Jericho fell down after the priests blew their trumpets and the Israelites shouted. The city was then conquered and destroyed by the Israelites.
The first city in Canaan taken by the Israelites was Jericho, as described in the biblical account in the book of Joshua. The Israelites marched around the city for seven days before its walls fell down, allowing them to conquer it.
According to the biblical account in the Book of Joshua, the walls of Jericho fell after the Israelites marched around the city for seven days, blowing trumpets and shouting. On the seventh day, after the seventh march around the city, the walls collapsed, allowing the Israelites to conquer Jericho.
A:According to the book of Joshua, Jericho was the first city the Israelites attacked at the end of the Exodus from Egypt. The Bible tells us that the forty-year Exodus began approximately 1444 BCE, 480 years before the fourth year of Solomon's reign, so the attack on Jericho would have been approximately 1404 BCE. However, over 90 per cent of scholars say that there was no Exodus from Egypt as described in the Bible. Archaeologists say that Jericho had been abandoned around 1550 BCE and all that existed, at the time the Israelites were said to have marched around the walls of Jericho, was a small, unwalled village. The Israelites never really marched around the walls of Jericho with trumpets.
The first event in the Battle of Jericho is the Israelites crossing the Jordan River led by Joshua with the Ark of the Covenant. This marked the beginning of their military campaign to conquer the city of Jericho.