About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
To the plains of Jericho. That part of the Arabah or Ghor on the west is about seven miles broad from the Jordan to the mountain entrance at Wady-Kelt. Though now desert, this valley was in ancient times richly covered with wood: an immense palm forest, seven miles long, surrounded Jericho.