After the destruction by fire at Jericho, the city was uninhabited for a long period of time.
“Tell es-Sultan remained unoccupied from the end of the 15th to the 10th-9th centuries BCE, when the city was rebuilt.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_es-Sultan
After its destruction by the Israelites it was, according to the biblical account, abandoned until Hiel the Bethelite established himself there in the 9th century BC (1 Kings 16:34).
https://www.thearchaeologist.org/blog/a … in-history
Josh 6:26 (KJV)
26 And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.
During the reign of Ahab, Jericho was rebuilt by Hiel. And his sons died while building the foundations and gates.
1Kgs 16:34 (NET)
34 During Ahab’s reign, Hiel the Bethelite rebuilt Jericho. Abiram, his firstborn son, died when he laid the foundation; Segub, his youngest son, died when he erected its gates, in keeping with the Lord’s message that he had spoken through Joshua son of Nun.
The existence of Ahab is historically supported outside the Bible. Shalmaneser III of Assyria documented in 853 BC that he defeated an alliance of a dozen kings in the Battle of Qarqar; one of these was Ahab. He is also mentioned on the inscriptions of the Mesha Stele.Ahab became king of Israel in the thirty-eighth year of King Asa of Judah, and reigned for twenty-two years, according to 1 Kings.[1 Kings 16:29] William F. Albright dated his reign to 869–850 BC, while Edwin R. Thiele offered the dates 874–853 BC.[2] Most recently, Michael Coogan has dated Ahab’s reign to 871–852 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahab
So, the Biblical account of the rebuilding of Jericho aligns with archaeology and historical records and the early date of the Exodus.
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