Joshua 4:23
For 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.
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- Exod 14:21 : 21 Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
- Isa 63:12-14 : 12 the one who made his majestic power available to Moses, who divided the water before them, gaining for himself a lasting reputation, 13 who led them through the deep water? Like a horse running through the wilderness they did not stumble. 14 Like an animal that goes down into a valley to graze, so the Spirit of the LORD granted them rest. In this way you guided your people, gaining for yourself an honored reputation.
- Neh 9:11 : 11 You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.
- Ps 77:16-19 : 16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and trembled. Yes, the depths of the sea shook with fear. 17 The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about. 18 Your thunderous voice was heard in the wind; the lightning bolts lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook. 19 You walked through the sea; you passed through the surging waters, but left no footprints.
- Ps 78:13 : 13 He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.
- Isa 43:16 : 16 This is what the LORD says, the one who made a road through the sea, a pathway through the surging waters,
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22explain to your children,‘Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.’
- Josh 3:13-175 verses82%
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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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.
- Josh 4:17-182 verses80%
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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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.
- Deut 11:4-52 verses78%
4or what he did to the army of Egypt, including their horses and chariots, when he made the waters of the Red Sea overwhelm them while they were pursuing you and he annihilated them.
5They did not see what he did to you in the wilderness before you reached this place,
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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.”
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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.”
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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.
- Exod 14:21-222 verses77%
21Moses stretched out his hand toward the sea, and the LORD drove the sea apart by a strong east wind all that night, and he made the sea into dry land, and the water was divided.
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.
- Josh 4:10-134 verses77%
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.
13About forty thousand battle-ready troops marched past the LORD to fight on the rift valley plains of Jericho.
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3The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back.
- Exod 14:29-302 verses77%
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.
30So the LORD saved Israel on that day from the power of the Egyptians, and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the shore of the sea.
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9He shouted at the Red Sea and it dried up; he led them through the deep water as if it were a desert.
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11You split the sea before them, and they crossed through the sea on dry ground! But you threw their pursuers into the depths, like a stone into surging waters.
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1Israel Commemorates the Crossing When the entire nation was on the other side, the LORD told Joshua,
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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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29By faith they crossed the Red Sea as if on dry ground, but when the Egyptians tried it, they were swallowed up.
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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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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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6He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. Let us rejoice in him there!
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3You saw everything the LORD your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the LORD your God fights for you.
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3As 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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8Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant,‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River, wade into the water.’”
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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.
- Deut 1:30-312 verses73%
30The LORD your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt
31and in the wilderness, where you saw him carrying you along like a man carries his son. This he did everywhere you went until you came to this very place.”
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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
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10Did 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?
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29just as the descendants of Esau who live at Seir and the Moabites who live in Ar did for me, until I cross the Jordan to the land the LORD our God is giving us.”
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17For the LORD our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations.
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19For 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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51“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When you have crossed the Jordan into the land of Canaan,
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28He said to them,“Follow me, for the LORD is about to defeat your enemies, the Moabites!” They followed him, captured the fords of the Jordan River opposite Moab, and did not let anyone cross.
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14This is why it is said in the Book of the Wars of the LORD,“Waheb in Suphah and the wadis, the Arnon
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13He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.
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5Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan 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.’”