Kingdom of Judah and their claims to the territory of the Kingdom of Israel after 722 BCE; those chapters were later incorporated into an early form of Joshua likely written late in the reign of King Josiah (reigned 640–609 BCE), and the book was revised and completed after the fall of Jerusalem to the Babylonians in 586, and possibly after the return from the Babylonian exile in 538. See also Ai (Bible) Biblical archaeology "Joshua Fit the Battle of Jericho", African-American spiritual about the battle References Bibliography External links Biblical Jericho Jericho Jericho Book of Joshua Massacres in the Bible Ark of the Covenant