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Joshua Chapter 3

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JOSHUA

Joshua 3

1Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They lodged there before they passed over.
Joshua 2:1, Joshua 2:1, Mark 1:35, Mark 1:35, Jeremiah 25:3
2It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;
Joshua 1:10, Joshua 1:11, Joshua 1:10, Joshua 1:11
3and they commanded the people, saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place, and follow it.
Deuteronomy 31:9, Deuteronomy 31:9, 2 Samuel 6:13, 2 Samuel 6:13, Exodus 13:21
4Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way before."
Psalms 89:7, Psalms 89:7, Exodus 3:5, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29
5Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you."
Joshua 7:13, Joshua 7:13, Leviticus 20:7, Leviticus 20:7, Joel 2:16
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.
Micah 2:13, Numbers 14:15, Joshua 3:3, Numbers 10:33, John 14:2
7The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with you.
Joshua 4:14, Joshua 4:14, Joshua 1:5, Joshua 1:5, 1 Chronicles 29:25
8You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, 'When you come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
Joshua 3:3, Joshua 3:17, Joshua 3:3, Joshua 3:17, 2 Chronicles 17:8
9Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God."
Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 12:8, Deuteronomy 12:8
10Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.
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 passes over before you into the Jordan.
Zechariah 6:5, Zechariah 6:5, Psalms 24:1, Zechariah 4:14, Psalms 24:1
12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:4, Joshua 4:9, Joshua 4:4
13It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap."
Exodus 15:8, Exodus 15:8, Psalms 78:13, Psalms 78:13, Joshua 3:15
14It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,
Acts 7:44, Acts 7:45, Acts 7:44, Acts 7:45, 1 Corinthians 1:24
15and when those who bore the ark had come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark had dipped in the edge of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
1 Chronicles 12:15, 1 Chronicles 12:15, Joshua 3:13, Jeremiah 12:5, Joshua 4:18
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. Then the people passed over right against Jericho.
Joshua 3:13, Joshua 3:13, Genesis 14:3, 1 Kings 4:12, 1 Kings 7:46
17The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
Exodus 14:29, Exodus 14:29, Exodus 14:22, Exodus 14:22, Psalms 66:6

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