Places
Jericho in Joshua 3
JAIR-ih-koh
This place shows up in Joshua 3:16: “the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and…” The Bible is not talking about a sticker. It is talking about a real place in a real place.
Joshua 3:16
“the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.”
What kids can learn
When you hear jericho in Joshua, remember the sentence around it. God put this place in the story on purpose.
Read Joshua 3:16 again tomorrow and ask what the place is doing in the sentence, not only what it looks like.
Say it
Practice Joshua 3:16
Tap the words in order. The blanks follow the verse from left to right.
thewaterswhichcamedownfromstood,androseupinoneheap,agreatwayoff,atAdam,thecitythatisbesideZarethan;andthosethatwentdowntowardtheseaoftheArabah,eventheSaltSea,werecutoff.ThenthepeopleovernearJericho.