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  1. Israeli-administered town in Jordan, north of
  2. the Dead Sea. It was settled by 8000 BC, and
  3. by 6000 BC had become a walled city with
  4. 2,000 inhabitants. In the Old Testament it
  5. was the first Canaanite stronghold captured
  6. by the Israelites, and its walls, according
  7. to the Book of Joshua, fell to the blast of
  8. Joshua's trumpets. Successive archaeological
  9. excavations since 1907 show that the walls of
  10. the city were destroyed many times.
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