![]() " This simply meant that the waters upstream would suddenly cease to flow by Israel's position. These verses outline the miracle that was to occur and which would permit Israel's passage of the Jordan. And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, 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." Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. "Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into the Jordan. ![]() When the Canaanites heard about the Israelites’ miraculous crossing of the Jordan, they were filled with fear (5:1). Once the people had established their camp at Gilgal, Joshua took the twelve stones that the men had brought from the river and set up the memorial (19-24). These remarkable events caused the people to give Joshua the same honour and respect as previously they had given Moses (9-18 cf. Joshua set up another memorial of twelve stones in the middle of the river itself, before the river broke through the earth dam upstream and returned to its normal flow. Twelve men, one from each tribe, were then sent back to take twelve stones from the river bed, to be set up at the place where the people camped that night as a memorial of the great event (4:1-8). The priests then stood in the middle of the dry river bed until all the people crossed over (14-17). God was controlling events according to his perfectly timed plan, so that the waters at the river crossing dried up just as the priests arrived there. It seems that the way God stopped the Jordan was by a collapse of its banks at the town of Adam (twenty-five kilometres upstream) that dammed the river. Just as the waters of the Red Sea had miraculously dried up to allow the former generation to escape from Egypt, so the waters of the Jordan would miraculously dry up to allow the new generation to enter Canaan (7-13). As God had worked through Moses, so he would work through Joshua. ![]() His presence was symbolized in the ark of the covenant (GNB: covenant box), which the priests carried ahead of the procession in full view of the people (3:1-6). ![]() The Israelites were to cleanse themselves before God, because he was the one who would lead them against their enemies. Israel’s conquest of Jericho was more than just a military exercise. The water was flowing down from below the south end of the threshold of the temple, south of a the altar. ”Ģ2 Then the angel 1 showed me x the river of y the water of life, bright as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the LambĢ1 But there the L ord in majesty will be for usĤ7 Then he brought me back to x the door of the temple, and behold, y water was issuing from below z the threshold of the temple toward the east ( for the temple faced east ). 10 Jesus answered her, “ If you knew the gift of God, and who it is that is saying to you, ‘ Give me a drink, ’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you h living water.
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