Joshua 4:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan.

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  • Exod 25:16-22 : 16 You shall put the testimony which I shall give you into the ark. 17 You shall make a mercy seat of pure gold. Two and a half cubits shall be its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth. 18 You shall make two cherubim of hammered gold. You shall make them at the two ends of the mercy seat. 19 Make one cherub at the one end, and one cherub at the other end. You shall make the cherubim on its two ends of one piece with the mercy seat. 20 The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, covering the mercy seat with their wings, with their faces toward one another. The faces of the cherubim shall be toward the mercy seat. 21 You shall put the mercy seat on top of the ark, and in the ark you shall put the testimony that I will give you. 22 There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the testimony, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
  • Josh 3:3-6 : 3 and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore. 5 Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you. 6 Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
  • Rev 11:19 : 19 God's temple that is in heaven was opened, and the ark of the Lord's covenant was seen in his temple. Lightnings, sounds, thunders, an earthquake, and great hail followed.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 4:17-19
    3 verses
    95%

    17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

    18It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

    19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

  • Josh 3:8-9
    2 verses
    86%

    8You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.

    9Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.

  • Josh 4:7-11
    5 verses
    84%

    7then you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.

    8The children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

    9Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

    10For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.

    11It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.

  • Josh 3:6
    81%

    6Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

  • Josh 4:15
    80%

    15Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 3:11-17
    7 verses
    79%

    11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

    12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

    13It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.

    14It happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people;

    15and when those who bore the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

    16that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

    17The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.

  • Josh 4:1-5
    5 verses
    78%

    1It happened, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

    2Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

    3and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.

    4Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

    5and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

  • Josh 6:12-13
    2 verses
    76%

    12Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh.

    13The seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.

  • Josh 6:6-10
    5 verses
    75%

    6Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh.

    7They said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Yahweh.

    8It was so, that when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of Yahweh followed them.

    9The armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark, [the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went.

    10Joshua commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall you shout.

  • Josh 4:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

    23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;

  • Josh 1:10-11
    2 verses
    72%

    10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

    11Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it.

  • 2 Chr 5:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4All the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

    5and they brought up the ark, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; these did the priests the Levites bring up.

  • 1 Kgs 8:3-4
    2 verses
    72%

    3All the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

    4They brought up the ark of Yahweh, and the tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels that were in the Tent; even these did the priests and the Levites bring up.

  • Josh 3:1
    72%

    1Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.

  • Josh 3:3
    72%

    3and they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.

  • 1 Chr 15:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Yahweh, the God of Israel.

    15The children of the Levites bore the ark of God on their shoulders with the poles thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of Yahweh.

  • Num 33:51
    71%

    51Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

  • Num 35:10
    70%

    10Speak to the children of Israel, and tell them, When you pass over the Jordan into the land of Canaan,

  • Josh 20:1
    70%

    1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 1:2
    70%

    2Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.

  • Deut 31:25
    70%

    25that Moses commanded the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, saying,

  • Josh 5:15
    70%

    15The prince of Yahweh's host said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. Joshua did so.