Joshua 4:22
explain to your children,‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’
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- Josh 3:17 : 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.
- Ps 66:5-6 : 5 Come and witness God’s exploits! His acts on behalf of people are awesome! 6 He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. Let us rejoice in him there!
- Isa 11:15-16 : 15 The LORD will divide the gulf of the Egyptian Sea; he will wave his hand over the Euphrates River and send a strong wind, he will turn it into seven dried-up streams, and enable them to walk across in their sandals. 16 There will be a highway leading out of Assyria for the remnant of his people, just as there was for Israel, when they went up from the land of Egypt.
- Isa 44:27 : 27 who says to the deep sea,‘Be dry! I will dry up your sea currents,’
- Isa 51:10 : 10 Did you not dry up the sea, the waters of the great deep? Did you not make a path through the depths of the sea, so those delivered from bondage could cross over?
- Rev 16:12 : 12 Then the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates and dried up its water to prepare the way for the kings from the east.
- Exod 14:29 : 29 But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
- Exod 15:19 : 19 For the horses of Pharaoh came with his chariots and his footmen into the sea, and the LORD brought back the waters of the sea on them, but the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.”
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- Josh 4:23-242 verses88%
23For the LORD your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the LORD your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it.
24He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the LORD’s power and so you might always obey the LORD your God.”
- Josh 4:3-1210 verses85%
3Instruct 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.’”
4Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one per tribe.
5Joshua 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.
6The stones will be a reminder to you. When your children ask someday,‘Why are these stones important to you?’
7tell them how the water of the Jordan stopped flowing before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the water of the Jordan stopped flowing. These stones will be a lasting memorial for the Israelites.”
8The 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.
9Joshua 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.
10Now 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,
11and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the LORD and the priests crossed as the people looked on.
12The Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle ahead of the Israelites, just as Moses had instructed them.
- Josh 4:20-212 verses82%
20Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
21He told the Israelites,“When your children someday ask their fathers,‘What do these stones represent?’
- Josh 3:13-175 verses81%
13When 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.”
14So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.
15When 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)–
16the 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.
17The 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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51“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
- Josh 4:15-184 verses79%
15The LORD told Joshua,
16“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”
17So Joshua instructed the priests,“Come up from the Jordan!”
18The 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.
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22So the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
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1Israel Commemorates the Crossing When the entire nation was on the other side, the LORD told Joshua,
- Josh 3:8-92 verses77%
8Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant,‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River, wade into the water.’”
9Joshua told the Israelites,“Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God!”
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11Look! 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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29But the Israelites walked on dry ground in the middle of the sea, the water forming a wall for them on their right and on their left.
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10“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you cross over the Jordan River into the land of Canaan,
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31For you are about to cross the Jordan to possess the land the LORD your God is giving you, and you will possess and inhabit it.
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10For we heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.
- Deut 27:2-32 verses75%
2When you cross the Jordan River to the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must erect great stones and cover them with plaster.
3Then you must inscribe on them all the words of this law when you cross over, so that you may enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, said to you.
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13Then their children, who have not known this law, will also hear about and learn to fear the LORD your God for as long as you live in the land you are crossing the Jordan to possess.”
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16And as for you, lift up your staff and extend your hand toward the sea and divide it, so that the Israelites may go through the middle of the sea on dry ground.
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1When 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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25The LORD made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the LORD.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the LORD.
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3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.
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1Israel 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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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.’”
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1Balaam 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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32We will cross armed in the LORD’s presence into the land of Canaan, and then the possession of our inheritance that we inherit will be ours on this side of the Jordan River.”
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22So I must die here in this land; I will not cross the Jordan. But you are going over and will possess that good land.
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39Also, your infants, who you thought would die on the way, and your children, who as yet do not know good from bad, will go there; I will give them the land and they will possess it.
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2Bear in mind today that I am not speaking to your children who have not personally experienced the judgments of the LORD your God, which revealed his greatness, strength, and power.
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21and if all your armed men cross the Jordan before the LORD until he drives out his enemies from his presence