Jericho is the first city Israel took in the promised land, and in the Bible it stands for a gift: a city handed to God’s people before they had struck a blow. Its walls fell at a shout (Joshua 6), Rahab found mercy there amid judgment, and Jesus stopped there for a blind beggar and a tax collector. The whole story turns on a verb in the past tense. Before Israel had walked once around the walls, the LORD told…

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