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Nicolai Levashov. Russian History Viewed through Distorted Mirrors. Vol. 1

up every man straight before him.

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17. And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trum-
pets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.

18. And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD:
only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because
she hid the messengers that we sent.
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19. But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, is consecrated un-
to the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.

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24. And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver,
and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the
house of the LORD.

25. And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and
all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the
messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
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As follows from the above extract from the Old Testament, the only “guilt” of
the city of Jericho and all its habitants was that they were rich and had a lot of silver
and gold. They did not attack the Israelites; they did nothing bad to them, at least, the
Old Testament says nothing about that. The only “guilt” of the city and its inhabitants
was their wealth which the Israelites coveted. Naturally, the inhabitants of the city
did not want to give up their gold and silver because the Judaic God had “given” it to
the Israelites. The God Jehovah was then only the God of the Israelites, nobody else
considered him to be their God. Therefore, this legend was invented for one reason
only — to justify the genocide which the Israelites committed upon the inhabitants
of this city. Pay attention, it was not genocide against the Israelites, but genocide re-
alized by the Israelites, dictated by their God.

The genocide of the inhabitants of Jericho had only one goal: the destruction of
everyone in order to capture their riches — silver and gold and brass and iron
plates and dishes. The Israelites did not need the city itself, because it was burned to
the ground, they needed only valuable things, nothing else, and the fact that it was
necessary to kill all the inhabitants of the city for this did not matter to them — for
they were not Israelites!

The words of the God Jehovah to his slave, Joshua are of interest, said exactly
as to a slave, not a person who has been freed from slavery. This is said in the Old

148 Old Testament, Joshua, Chapter 6. King James Version.

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