Josué 3:11

11 ¡Miren, el arca del pacto que pertenece al Señor de toda la tierra los guiará al cruzar el río Jordán!

Josué 3:11 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 3:11

Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth,
&c.] Some both Jewish and Christian interpreters, because there is a distinguishing accent on the word "covenant", read the words "the ark of the covenant, even the Lord of all the earth"; so in some copies of our English Bible, as if the ark was called the Lord of all the earth, because of his presence and dwelling there; but, as Kimchi observes, either the word "ark" is wanting, or the word "covenant", and may be supplied either thus,

``the ark of the covenant, the ark (I say) of the Lord of all the earth;''

or thus,

``the ark of the covenant, which is the covenant of the Lord of all the earth:''

the true meaning is what Abarbinel gives,

``the ark of the covenant of the Lord, who is the Lord of the whole earth;''

the Maker and possessor of the whole earth, the whole terraqueous globe; and can do what he pleases in the earth, or in the water; and can control the powers of nature, and do what is beyond them, things miraculous and astonishing:

passeth before you into Jordan;
not only unto it, but into it, into the river itself; and, by the power of him whose presence was with it, the waters of Jordan were to be divided, to give them a passage through it as on dry land, and so it came to pass.

Josué 3:11 In-Context

9 Entonces Josué les dijo a los israelitas: «Vengan y escuchen lo que dice el Señor
su Dios.

10 Hoy sabrán que el Dios viviente está entre ustedes. Sin lugar a dudas, él expulsará a los cananeos, a los hititas, a los heveos, a los ferezeos, a los gergeseos, a los amorreos y a los jebuseos de delante de ustedes.

11 ¡Miren, el arca del pacto que pertenece al Señor de toda la tierra los guiará al cruzar el río Jordán!

12 Elijan ahora a doce hombres de las tribus de Israel, uno de cada tribu.

13 Los sacerdotes llevarán el arca del Señor
, el Señor de toda la tierra. En cuanto sus pies toquen el agua, la corriente de agua se detendrá río arriba, y el río se levantará como un muro».