Joshua 3:12-16

12 Now then, choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
13 And as soon as the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—set foot in the Jordan, its waters flowing downstream will be cut off and stand up in a heap.”
14 So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
15 Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest. Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
16 the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Cross References 18

  • 1. Joshua 4:2,4
  • 2. S ver 11
  • 3. ver 16
  • 4. Joshua 4:7
  • 5. S Exodus 14:22; S Isaiah 11:15; Exodus 15:8; Psalms 78:13
  • 6. Psalms 132:8
  • 7. Acts 7:44-45
  • 8. 2 Kings 2:6
  • 9. Joshua 4:18; 1 Chronicles 12:15; Isaiah 8:7
  • 10. S Genesis 8:22
  • 11. Psalms 66:6; Psalms 74:15; Psalms 114:3
  • 12. Job 38:37; Psalms 33:7
  • 13. 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 7:46
  • 14. ver 13
  • 15. S Deuteronomy 1:1
  • 16. S Genesis 14:3
  • 17. S Genesis 8:1; S Exodus 14:22
  • 18. 2 Kings 2:4
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