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Joshua Chapter 3

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JOSHUA

Joshua 3

1And Joshua rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan: he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.
Joshua 2:1, Joshua 2:1, Mark 1:35, Mark 1:35, Jeremiah 25:3
2After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,
Joshua 1:10, Joshua 1:11, Joshua 1:10, Joshua 1:11
3And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go before:
Deuteronomy 31:9, Deuteronomy 31:9, 2 Samuel 6:13, 2 Samuel 6:13, Exodus 13:21
4And let there be between you and the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care you come not near the ark.
Psalms 89:7, Psalms 89:7, Exodus 3:5, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29
5And Joshua said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
Joshua 7:13, Joshua 7:13, Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 20:7, Joel 2:16
6And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands, and took it up, and walked before them.
Micah 2:13, Numbers 14:15, Joshua 3:3, Numbers 10:33, John 14:2
7And the Lord said to Joshua: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.
Joshua 4:14, Joshua 4:14, Joshua 1:5, Joshua 1:5, 1 Chronicles 29:25
8And do thou command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of the water of the Jordan, stand in it.
Joshua 3:3, Joshua 3:17, Joshua 3:3, Joshua 3:17, 2 Chronicles 17:8
9And Joshua said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear the word of the Lord your God.
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 12:8, Deuteronomy 12:8
10And again he said: By this you shall know, that the Lord, the living God, is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy, before your sight, the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and the Pherezite, the Gergesite also, and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite.
Deuteronomy 7:1, Deuteronomy 7:1, Exodus 33:2, Exodus 33:2, Psalms 44:2
11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into the Jordan.
Zechariah 6:5, Zechariah 6:5, Psalms 24:1, Zechariah 4:14, Psalms 24:1
12Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:4, Joshua 4:9, Joshua 4:4
13And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together upon a heap.
Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:8, Psalms 78:13, Psalms 78:13, Joshua 3:15
14So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.
Acts 7:44, Acts 7:45, Acts 7:44, Acts 7:45, 1 Corinthians 1:24
15And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest time, had filled the banks of its channel,)
1 Chronicles 12:15, 1 Chronicles 12:15, Joshua 3:13, Jeremiah 12:5, Joshua 4:18
16The waters that came down from above stood in one place, and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off, from the city that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness, (which now is called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.
Joshua 3:13, Joshua 3:13, Genesis 14:3, 1 Kings 4:12, 1 Kings 7:46
17And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over, through the channel that was dried up.
Exodus 14:29, Exodus 14:29, Exodus 14:22, Exodus 14:22, Psalms 66:6

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