It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?
i ביריחו εν ιεριχω, Sept. in Jericho, Pagninus, Montanus. k Bereshit. Rabba, sect. 97. fol. 84. 2. Nachmanides in loc.