Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 3

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Joshua 3 . 1 , Joshua comes to Jordan; Joshua 3 . 2 , The officers instruct the people for their passage; Joshua 3 . 7 , The Lord encourages Joshua; Joshua 3 . 9 , Joshua encourages the people; Joshua 3 . 14 , The water of Jordan are divided.

Joshua 3:1

Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.

Joshua 3:1 · BSB

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Archbishop Usher supposes , that this was upon Wednesday , the 28th of April , am 2553 , the fortieth year of the Exodus from Egypt. From Shittim , where the israelites had been encamped for about two months

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Jordan Jordan , called by the Arabs El Sharia , takes its rise in Anti-Libanus , about twelve miles north of Cesarea Philippi , now Banias; and , having run about twelve miles southward , it receives a considerable stream , which is now called the Moiet Hasbeia. About 15 miles farther , it forms the waters of Merom or Semechon , now Houle; and , after running about 28 miles more , it passes through the lake of Gennesareth , and thence runs southward till it loses itself in the Dead Sea; its whole course being about 160 miles.

Joshua 3:2

After three days the officers went through the camp

Joshua 3:2 · BSB

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Joshua 3:3

and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God being carried by the Levitical priests, you are to set out from your positions and follow it.

Joshua 3:3 · BSB

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Joshua 3:4

But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”

Joshua 3:4 · BSB

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Heb. since yesterday and the third day

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Joshua 3:5

Then Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.”

Joshua 3:5 · BSB

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Joshua 3:6

And he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

Joshua 3:6 · BSB

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Joshua 3:7

Now the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Joshua 3:7 · BSB

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Joshua 3:8

Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: ‘When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.’”

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Joshua 3:9

So Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”

Joshua 3:9 · BSB

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Joshua 3:10

He continued, “This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that He will surely drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

Joshua 3:10 · BSB

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Joshua 3:11

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.

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Joshua 3:12

Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.

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Joshua 3:13

When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap.”

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Joshua 3:14

So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.

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Joshua 3:15

Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,

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The ordinary current of the Jordan , near where the Israelites crossed , is said by Maundrell , to be about twenty yards across , deeper than a man's height , and so rapid , that there is no swimming against it. It has , however , two banks; the first , or inner one , is that of the river in its natural state , and the second , or outer one , about a furlong distant , is that of its overflowings , which it does when the summer's sun has melted the snow on mount Lebanon and Hermon , in the months of March and April. And this was the time which God chose that the Israelites should pass over it; that a miraculous interposition might be necessary; and that , by the miracle , they might be convinced of his omnipotence

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Joshua 3:16

the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Joshua 3:16 · BSB

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  • Joshua 15:2
  • Genesis 14:3
  • Numbers 34:3
  • Deuteronomy 3:17 The passage through the Red Sea took place in the night , when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians with great trepidation , but they passed Jordan in the day-time , with previous warning , leisurely , directly opposite to Jericho , and with a triumphant defiance of the Canaanites; this passage into the promised land evidently typifying the believer's passage through death to heaven

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Joshua 3:17

The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web5 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Allusions Acts 7:45 → Joshua 3:14
Echoes 1 Chronicles 29:25 → Joshua 3:7
Trajectories
Crossing the Jordan (Entering God's Rest), Joshua (Leader into Rest)
Chiasms
Shaped Joshua 3:3–5
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