Joshua 3:1
Israel Crosses the Jordan Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan. They camped there before crossing the river.
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- Josh 2:1 : 1 Joshua Sends Spies into the Land Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them:“Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.
- Mark 1:35 : 35 Praying and Preaching Then Jesus got up early in the morning when it was still very dark, departed, and went out to a deserted place, and there he spent time in prayer.
- Gen 22:3 : 3 Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.
- Num 25:1 : 1 Israel’s Sin with the Moabite Women When Israel lived in Shittim, the people began to commit sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab.
- Ps 119:60 : 60 I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.
- Jer 7:13 : 13 You also have done all these things, says the LORD, and I have spoken to you over and over again. But you have not listened! You have refused to respond when I called you to repent!
- Jer 25:3 : 3 “For the last twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year that Josiah son of Amon was ruling in Judah until now, the LORD’s messages have come to me and I have told them to you over and over again. But you would not listen.
- Jer 26:5 : 5 You must pay attention to the exhortations of my servants the prophets. I have sent them to you over and over again. But you have not paid any attention to them.
- Mic 6:5 : 5 My people, recall how King Balak of Moab planned to harm you, how Balaam son of Beor responded to him. Recall how you journeyed from Shittim to Gilgal, so you might acknowledge that the LORD has treated you fairly.”
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2 After three days the leaders went through the camp
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1 Israel Commemorates the Crossing When the entire nation was on the other side, the LORD told Joshua,
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9 Joshua sent them away and they went to their hiding place west of Ai, between Bethel and Ai. Joshua spent that night with the army.
10 Bright and early the next morning Joshua gathered the army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched at the head of it to Ai.
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13 When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the LORD, the Lord of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.”
14 So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
15 When the ones carrying the ark reached the Jordan and the feet of the priests carrying the ark touched the surface of the water–(the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest time)–
16 the water coming downstream toward them stopped flowing. It piled up far upstream at Adam(the city near Zarethan); there was no water at all flowing to the sea of the rift valley(the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho.
17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side.
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11 “Go through the camp and command the people,‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the LORD your God is ready to hand over to you.’”
12 Joshua told the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh:
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11 So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the LORD around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.
12 Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the LORD.
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11 Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you.
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1 Balaam Refuses to Curse Israel The Israelites traveled on and camped in the rift valley plains of Moab on the side of the Jordan River across from Jericho.
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15 The LORD told Joshua,
16 “Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”
17 So Joshua instructed the priests,“Come up from the Jordan!”
18 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the middle of the Jordan, and as soon as they set foot on dry land, the water of the Jordan flowed again and returned to flood stage.
19 The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
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8 Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant,‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River, wade into the water.’”
9 Joshua told the Israelites,“Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God!”
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48 They traveled from the mountains of Abarim and camped in the rift valley plains by Moab along the Jordan River across from Jericho.
49 They camped by the Jordan, from Beth Jeshimoth as far as Abel-shittim in the rift valley plains of Moab.
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6 Joshua told the priests,“Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people.
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9 Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.
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8 The Israelites did just as Joshua commanded. They picked up twelve stones, according to the number of the Israelite tribes, from the middle of the Jordan as the LORD had instructed Joshua. They carried them over with them to the camp and put them there.
9 Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.
10 Now the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people was accomplished, in accordance with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people went across quickly,
11 and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the LORD and the priests crossed as the people looked on.
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16 Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order, and the tribe of Judah was selected.
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5 Joshua told them,“Go in front of the ark of the LORD your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.
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3 Instruct them,‘Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.’”
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7 Joshua and his whole army caught them by surprise at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.
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13 The army was in position– the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into the middle of the valley.
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15 On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn and marched around the city as before– only this time they marched around it seven times.
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22 So David and all the people who were with him got up and crossed the Jordan River. By dawn there was not one person left who had not crossed the Jordan.
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1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the LORD had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.
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5 They crossed the Jordan and camped at Aroer, on the south side of the city, at the wadi of Gad, near Jazer.
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10 So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month in the rift valley plains of Jericho.
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22 explain to your children,‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’
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13 About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the LORD to fight on the rift valley plains of Jericho.
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51 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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3 As for the LORD your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and you will dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the LORD has said.
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2 “Moses my servant is dead. Get ready! Cross the Jordan River! Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.
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1 Joshua Sends Spies into the Land Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them:“Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.” They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.