46 BATTLES OF THE BIBLE.

to the Lord; the people must take nothing for them-
selves. The priests blew the trumpets—the people
shouted loudly—and the wall fell down flat.

Johnnie. What made the wall fall down, grandfather ?

Grandfather. The power of God, without whom no
city can be fortified, and no city can be taken.

George. But why could they not have besieged
Jericho, and taken it in the ordinary way ?

Grandfather. That it was the will of God is sufficient
for us to know, as it sufficed for J oshua and the Israel-
ites. But we may see many reasons why it was an
advantage for Jericho to be taken in a miraculous way.
It would encourage the Israelites at their outset, and
it would teach them to trust in God and look to Him
for victory. It would shew before the heathen nations
the power of the Almighty, and would render them
more inexcusable if they persisted in resisting a power
that was manifestly divine.

Marianne. Was Rahab saved alive ?

Grand father. Yes; Joshua sent the two spies to
whom she had shewn kindness to bring her out of the
city. They brought her and all her relations out to the
camp. She was afterwards married to Salmon, a prince
of the tribe of Judah, and is mentioned in the lst
chapter of St Matthew’s gospel, as an ancestress of
our Lord. All the other inhabitants of Jericho were
put to death, men, women, and children, with their
cattle and sheep; only the silver and gold, with the
vessels of brass and iron remained, and they were put