Joshua 3:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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  • Exod 14:29 : 29 But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.
  • Exod 14:22 : 22 And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.
  • Josh 4:3 : 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.
  • 2 Kgs 2:8 : 8 Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.
  • Ps 66:6 : 6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
  • Isa 25:8 : 8 He has put an end to death for ever; and the Lord God will take away all weeping; and he will put an end to the shame of his people in all the earth: for the Lord has said it.
  • Heb 11:29 : 29 By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it had been dry land, though the Egyptians were overcome by the water when they made an attempt to do the same.

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  • Josh 4:7-13
    7 verses
    88%

    7Then 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.

    8So 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.

    9And 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.

    10For 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.

    11And 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.

    12And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them:

    13About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho.

  • Josh 3:11-16
    6 verses
    88%

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

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

    13And 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.

    14So 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;

    15And 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),

    16Then 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.

  • Josh 4:16-19
    4 verses
    87%

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

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

    18And 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.

    19So 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.

  • 8And 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 4:22-23
    2 verses
    82%

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

    23For 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:

  • 6Then 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 3:1-3
    3 verses
    78%

    1Then 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.

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

    3Giving 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;

  • 5And 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:

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

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    21And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

    22And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

  • 1Now 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.

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

  • 29But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

  • 17As 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.

  • 3And 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.

  • 11Go 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.

  • 29By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it had been dry land, though the Egyptians were overcome by the water when they made an attempt to do the same.

  • 22So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.

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

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

  • 31For you are about to go over Jordan to take the heritage which the Lord your God is giving you, and it will be your resting-place.

  • 5And 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;

  • 19For the horses of Pharaoh, with his war-carriages and his horsemen, went into the sea, and the Lord sent the waters of the sea back over them; but the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land.

  • 6The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

  • 16And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land.

  • 21Every armed man of you going across Jordan before the Lord till he has overcome and sent in flight all who are against him,

  • 32We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.

  • 8Then Elijah took off his robe, and, rolling it up, gave the water a blow with it, and the waters were parted, flowing back this way and that, so that they went over on dry land.

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

  • 28And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across.