Verse 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.”

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 15:8 : 8 By the blast of your nostrils the waters were piled up, the flowing water stood upright like a heap, and the deep waters were solidified in the heart of the sea.
  • Ps 78:13 : 13 He divided the sea and led them across it; he made the water stand in a heap.
  • Josh 3:15-16 : 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.
  • Ps 33:7 : 7 He piles up the water of the sea; he puts the oceans in storehouses.
  • Josh 3:11 : 11 Look! The ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you.
  • Ps 114:3-5 : 3 The sea looked and fled; the Jordan River turned back. 4 The mountains skipped like rams, the hills like lambs. 5 Why do you flee, O sea? Why do you turn back, O Jordan River?
  • Hab 3:15 : 15 But you trample on the sea with your horses, on the surging, raging waters.
  • Exod 14:19-22 : 19 The angel of God, who was going before the camp of Israel, moved and went behind them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind them. 20 It came between the Egyptian camp and the Israelite camp; it was a dark cloud and it lit up the night so that one camp did not come near the other the whole night. 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. 22 So 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.