Joshua 6:20

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So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

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Jericho was a fortified Canaanite city in the Jordan Valley, near the entrance to the land Israel was entering. Its fall after Israel’s shout and trumpet blast marked the Lord’s fulfillment of his promise to give them the city, not a victory gained by ordinary military strength.

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Joshua 6:20 mentions Jericho.