In a message dated 9/25/1999 4:30:20 PM US Mountain Standard Time, 
temackey.jn17.21@... writes:

<< I don't know whether your misapplication of scripture is intentional
 or an honest mistake; whether you are honestly struggling with some
 of the most difficult events of Biblical history or whether the same
 voice that whispered in Eve's ear has captured your attention, but the
 passage you cited in Numbers has nothing whatsover to do with Joshua
 and Jericho, but rather with Moses and the Midianites, though the
 results are similar.
    For the Jericho account you need to look in Joshua 6.
 Yours because of Calvary,
 Tom >>
Yes Tom, my cut and copy from Number was an honest mistake.  The two accouts 
are very similar in the Bible.  My point still stands though, that the 
Jericho story is a terrible story about God's people murdering men, women, 
and children and that this story might no be the best story for a theme 
event.  The Numbers quote that I mistakenly used was to offer data that shows 
that the people of Moses did not always kill everyone to stop a foreign 
entity from infecting the people of Moses.  In the Jericho "God ordered" 
slaughter, everyone was killed, in the Midianite "God Ordered" slaughter, the 
virgin women were saved for the people of Moses to use.

I am sorry for any confusion this might of caused.

Keep Lookin Up!
Paul Jass