Joshua 3

1Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.Cross-references: Gen 22:3 · Num 25:1 · Josh 2:1 · Ps 119:60 · Jer 7:13 · Jer 25:3 · +3 more

2After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;Cross-references: Josh 1:10

3and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of Yahweh your God’s covenant, and the Levitical priests bearing it, then leave your place and follow it.Cross-references: Ex 13:21 · Num 4:15 · Num 10:33 · Deut 31:9 · Deut 31:25 · Josh 3:6 · +10 more

4Yet there shall be a space between you and it of about two thousand cubits by measure—don’t come closer to it—that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before.”Cross-references: Gen 31:2 · Ex 3:5 · Ex 4:10 · Ex 19:12 · 1Chr 11:2 · Ps 89:7 · +2 more

5Joshua said to the people, “Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.”Cross-references: Ex 19:10 · Lev 10:3 · Lev 20:7 · Num 11:8 · Josh 3:13 · Josh 3:15 · +7 more

6Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, “Take up the ark of the covenant, and cross over before the people.” They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.Cross-references: Num 10:33 · Num 14:15 · Josh 3:3 · Mic 2:13 · John 14:2 · Heb 6:20

7Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.Cross-references: Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:17 · Josh 4:14 · 1Chr 29:25 · 2Chr 1:1 · Job 7:17 · +4 more

8You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”Cross-references: Ex 14:13 · Josh 3:3 · Josh 3:17 · 1Chr 15:11 · 2Chr 17:8 · 2Chr 29:4 · +10 more

9Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.”Cross-references: Deut 4:1 · Deut 12:8

10Joshua said, “By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.Cross-references: Gen 15:15 · Ex 3:8 · Ex 17:7 · Ex 23:27 · Ex 33:2 · Num 15:28 · +20 more

11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.Cross-references: Josh 3:3 · Josh 3:13 · Job 41:11 · Ps 24:1 · Isa 3:12 · Isa 54:5 · +6 more

12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.Cross-references: Josh 4:2 · Josh 4:4 · Josh 4:9

13It shall be that when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off. The waters that come down from above shall stand in one heap.”Cross-references: Ex 14:19 · Ex 15:8 · Josh 3:11 · Josh 3:15 · Ps 33:7 · Ps 78:13 · +2 more

14When the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,Cross-references: Deut 31:26 · Josh 3:3 · Josh 3:6 · Josh 6:6 · Ps 132:8 · Jer 3:16 · +3 more

15and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),Cross-references: Lev 23:10 · Deut 16:1 · Josh 3:13 · Josh 4:18 · Josh 5:10 · 1Chr 12:15 · +3 more

16the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off. Then the people passed over near Jericho.Cross-references: Gen 14:3 · Num 34:3 · Deut 1:1 · Deut 3:17 · Josh 3:13 · Josh 15:2 · +9 more

17The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.Cross-references: Ex 14:22 · Ex 14:29 · Josh 4:3 · 2Ki 2:8 · Ps 66:6 · Isa 25:8 · +1 more