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Jericho

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Events

1. c. 4 BCHerod the Great dies at Jericho

In ancient writers

• Strabo, Geography 16.2.41 — Jericho is a plain ringed by mountains like a theatre, with a palm grove 100 stades long, well watered and full of dwellings, a palace and the garden of balsam, a costly remedy produced nowhere else.

Verses (5)

Matt 20:29

And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

Mark 10:46

And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimæus, the son of Timæus, sat by the highway side begging.

Luke 10:30

And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead.

Luke 18:35

And it came to pass, that as he was come nigh unto Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the way side begging:

Luke 19:1

And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.

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