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Two spies are sent to Jericho, where Rahab shelters them and later helps them escape because she believes God. The Israelites cross the Jordan on dry ground as the river’s flow stops at God’s command. Following God’s instructions to march around Jericho, the walls fall, the city is destroyed, and Rahab’s family is spared, while a peace treaty with the Gibeonites results from deception.","15. The Promised Land  \nA Bible story from Joshua 1-24  \nEnglish Spiritual  \n15. The Promised Land  \nDistant Shores Media and the Door43 World Missions Community. Illustrations are © Sweet Publishing.  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2015, unfolding Word | Open Bible Stories  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nThis work is a derivative of \"Creative Commons Open Bible Stories\" attributed to [unfoldingWord.org](unfoldingWord.org) used under CC BY SA 4.0. All included images originate from “Bible Images from Sweet Publishing” attributed to Sweet Publishing used under CC BY SA 3.0.  \nAt last it was time for the Israelites to enter Canaan, the Promised Land. Joshua sent two spies to the Canaanite city of Jericho that was protected by strong walls. In that city there lived a prostitute named Rahab who hid the spies and later helped them to escape. She did this because she believed God. They promised to protect Rahab and her family when the Israelites would destroy Jericho.  \nThe Israelites had to cross the Jordan River to enter into the Promised Land. God told Joshua,“Have the priests go first.” When the priests started to step into the Jordan River, the water upstream stopped flowing so the Israelites could cross over to the other side of the river on dry ground.  \nAfter the people crossed the Jordan River, God told Joshua how to attack the powerful city of Jericho. The people obeyed God. Just as God told them to do, the soldiers and priests marched around the city of Jericho once a day for six days.  \nThen on the seventh day, the Israelites marched around the city seven more times. While they marched around the city for the last time, the soldiers shouted while the priests blew their trumpets.  \nThen the walls around Jericho fell down! The Israelites destroyed everything in the city as God had commanded. They only spared Rahab and her family, who became part of the Israelites. When the other people living in Canaan heard that the Israelites had destroyed Jericho, they were terrified that the Israelites would attack them also.  \nGod had commanded the Israelites not to make a peace treaty with any of the people groups in Canaan. But one of the Canaanite people groups, called the Gibeonites, lied to Joshua and said they were from a place far from Canaan. They asked Joshua to make a peace treaty with them. Joshua and the Israelites did not ask God where the Gibeonites were from. 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