Joshua 3:15

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who took up the ark were touching the edge of the water (for the waters of Jordan are overflowing all through the time of the grain-cutting),

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  • 1 Chr 12:15 : 15 It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west.
  • Jer 12:5 : 5 If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?
  • Jer 49:19 : 19 See, he will come up like a lion from the thick growth of Jordan against the resting-place of Teman: but I will suddenly make him go in flight from her; and I will put over her the man of my selection: for who is like me? and who will put forward his cause against me? and what keeper of sheep will be able to keep his place before me?
  • Josh 4:18 : 18 And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.
  • Josh 3:13 : 13 And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.
  • Josh 5:10-12 : 10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, in the lowlands of Jericho. 11 And on the day after the Passover, they had for their food the produce of the land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the same day. 12 And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.
  • Lev 23:10-16 : 10 Say to the children of Israel, When you have come to the land which I will give you, and have got in the grain from its fields, take some of the first-fruits of the grain to the priest; 11 And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest. 12 And on the day of the waving of the grain, you are to give a male lamb of the first year, without any mark, for a burned offering to the Lord. 13 And let the meal offering with it be two tenth parts of an ephah of the best meal mixed with oil, an offering made by fire to the Lord for a sweet smell; and the drink offering with it is to be of wine, the fourth part of a hin. 14 And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living. 15 And let seven full weeks be numbered from the day after the Sabbath, the day when you give the grain for the wave offering; 16 Let fifty days be numbered, to the day after the seventh Sabbath; then you are to give a new meal offering to the Lord.
  • Deut 16:1-9 : 1 Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night. 2 The Passover offering, from your flock or your herd, is to be given to the Lord your God in the place marked out by him as the resting-place of his name. 3 Take no leavened bread with it; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread, that is, the bread of sorrow; for you came out of the land of Egypt quickly: so the memory of that day, when you came out of the land of Egypt, will be with you all your life. 4 For seven days let no leaven be used through all your land; and nothing of the flesh which is put to death in the evening of the first day is to be kept through the night till morning. 5 The Passover offering is not to be put to death in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you: 6 But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt. 7 It is to be cooked and taken as food in the place marked out by the Lord: and in the morning you are to go back to your tents. 8 For six days let your food be unleavened bread; and on the seventh day there is to be a holy meeting to the Lord your God; no work is to be done. 9 Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.
  • Isa 26:6 : 6 It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 3:11-14
    4 verses
    89%

    11 See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan.

    12 So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.

    13 And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.

    14 So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;

  • Josh 3:16-17
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    88%

    16 Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

    17 And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.

  • Josh 4:16-19
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    87%

    16 Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan.

    17 So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.

    18 And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.

    19 So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.

  • Josh 4:7-11
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    83%

    7 Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went over Jordan the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones will be a sign for the children of Israel, keeping it in their memory for ever.

    8 So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them orders, and took twelve stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord had said to Joshua, one for every tribe of the children of Israel; these they took across with them to their night's resting-place and put them down there.

    9 And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.

    10 For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.

    11 And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people.

  • Josh 3:8
    82%

    8 And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further.

  • Josh 3:6
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    6 Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.

  • Josh 4:22-23
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    76%

    22 Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.

    23 For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:

  • Josh 3:1-3
    3 verses
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    1 Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.

    2 And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,

    3 Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see the ark of the agreement of the Lord your God lifted up by the priests, the Levites, then get up from your places and go after it;

  • Josh 4:5
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    5 And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel:

  • Ps 114:3
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    3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3
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    3 And all the responsible men of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  • 1 Chr 12:15
    72%

    15 It was they who went over Jordan in the first month, when the river was overflowing, and put to flight all the people of the valleys, to the east and to the west.

  • Josh 5:1
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    1 Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

  • Josh 16:7
    71%

    7 And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan.

  • Josh 6:6-9
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    6 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the agreement, and let seven priests take seven horns in their hands and go before the ark of the Lord.

    7 And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the town, and let the armed men go before the ark of the Lord.

    8 So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven priests with their seven horns went forward before the Lord, blowing on their horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement went after them.

    9 And the armed men went before the priests who were blowing the horns, and the mass of the people went after the ark, blowing their horns.

  • Num 21:15
    71%

    15 The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.

  • 2 Chr 5:4
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    4 All the responsible men of Israel came, and the Levites took up the ark.

  • 1 Chr 15:14-15
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    14 So the priests and the Levites made themselves holy to take up the ark of the Lord, the God of Israel.

    15 And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.

  • 2 Sam 24:5
    71%

    5 And they went over Jordan, and starting from Aroer, from the town which is in the middle of the valley, they went in the direction of the Gadites, and on to Jazer;

  • Deut 3:17
    70%

    17 As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

  • Josh 6:11-13
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    70%

    11 So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.

    12 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests took up the ark of the Lord.

    13 And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns.

  • Josh 4:1
    70%

    1 Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Judg 8:4
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    4 Then Gideon came to Jordan and went over it with his three hundred, overcome with weariness and in need of food.

  • Num 33:51
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    51 Say to the children of Israel, When you go over Jordan into the land of Canaan,

  • Josh 4:3
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    3 And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests were resting, twelve stones, and take them over with you and put them down in the place where you take your rest tonight.

  • Gen 7:18
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    18 And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.

  • Matt 3:13
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    13 Then Jesus came from Galilee to John at the Jordan, to be given baptism by him.

  • Josh 1:11
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    11 Go through the tents and give orders to the people, saying, Get ready a store of food; for in three days you are to go over this river Jordan and take for your heritage the land which the Lord your God is giving you.

  • Josh 18:18
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    18 And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah;