So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
"On the basis of the scarabs and pottery found in the cemetery associated with City IV in Jericho, it is impossible to date the fall of that city subsequent to 1400 B.C., despite all of the negative findings of Kathleen Kenyon (as we have previously shown). On the other hand, there are absolutely insurmountable objections to the Late Date Theory [ca. 1280 B.C.] on the basis of archaeological discovery." [Note: Gleason L. Archer, "Old Testament History and Recent Archaeology From Moses to David," Bibliotheca Sacra 127:506 (April-June 1970):108. See also Leon Wood, A Survey of Israel’s History, pp. 94-99, for a good discussion of the archaeology of Old Testament Jericho.] 