Joshua 3:8 - John Wesley's Notes

Joshua 3:8

6 Then Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, ^a“Take up the ark of the covenant and cross over before the people.” So they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.

7 And the Lord said to Joshua, “This day I will begin to ^aexalt you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, ^bas I was with Moses, so I will be with you.

8 You shall command ^athe priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you have come to the edge of the water of the Jordan, ^byou shall stand in the Jordan.’ ”

9 So Joshua said to the children of Israel, “Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God.”

10 And Joshua said, “By this you shall know that ^athe living God is among you, and that He will without fail ^bdrive out from before you the ^cCanaanites and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites and the Amorites and the Jebusites:

11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of ^athe Lord of all the earth is crossing over before you into the Jordan.

12 Now therefore, ^atake for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe.

13 And it shall come to pass, ^aas soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, ^bthe Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, the waters that come down from upstream, and they ^cshall stand as a heap.”

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Joshua 3:8

The brink - Heb. to the extremity, so far as the river then spread itself, which was now more than ordinary, Joshua 3:15. In Jordan - Within the waters of Jordan, in the first entrance into the river; Where they stood for a season, 'till the river was divided, and then they went into the midst of it, and there abode 'till all the people were passed over.

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