Jos 3:4-17 - Commentary

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Text -- Joshua 3:4-17 (NET)

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3:4 But stay about three thousand feet behind it. Keep your distance so you can see which way you should go, for you have not traveled this way before.” 3:5 Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.” 3:6 Joshua told the priests, “Pick up the ark of the covenant and pass on ahead of the people.” So they picked up the ark of the covenant and went ahead of the people. 3:7 The Lord told Joshua, “This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses. 3:8 Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenant, ‘When you reach the bank of the Jordan River, wade into the water.’” 3:9 Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!” 3:10 Joshua continued, “This is how you will know the living God is among you and that he will truly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. 3:11 Look! The ark of the covenant of the Ruler of the whole earth is ready to enter the Jordan ahead of you. 3:12 Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe. 3:13 When the feet of the priests carrying the ark of the Lord, the Ruler of the whole earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water coming downstream toward you will stop flowing and pile up.” 3:14 So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them. 3:15 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)– 3:16 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 Arabah (the Salt Sea). The people crossed the river opposite Jericho. 3:17 The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan. All Israel crossed over on dry ground until the entire nation was on the other side.

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Names, People and Places:

· Adam the father of Cain, Abel, Seth and all mankind,the original man created by God,a town on the Jordan at the mouth of the Jabbok (OS)

· Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia

· Arabah a town of Judea west of Jerusalem on the border of Benjamin

· Canaanite residents of the region of Canaan

· Girgashite members of a clan of Canaan

· Hittite a person/people living in the land of Syro-Palestine

· Hivite a person/people descended from Canaan son of Ham son of Noah

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jebusite resident(s) of the town of Jebus (Jerusalem)

· Jericho a town five miles west of the Jordan and 15 miles northeast of Jerusalem,a town of Benjamin 11 km NW of the mouth of the Jordan River

· Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)

· Joshua a son of Eliezer; the father of Er; an ancestor of Jesus,the son of Nun and successor of Moses,son of Nun of Ephraim; successor to Moses,a man: owner of the field where the ark stopped,governor of Jerusalem under King Josiah,son of Jehozadak; high priest in the time of Zerubbabel

· Moses a son of Amram; the Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them The Law of Moses,a Levite who led Israel out of Egypt and gave them the law

· Perizzite a people of ancient Canaan in the later territory of Ephraim

· Salt Sea the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River

· sea of the Arabah the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River

· Sea of the Arabah the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River

· Zarethan a town of Gad on the Jordan east bank about 7 km south of Succoth,a town of Ephraim 19 km NW of Bethel & 17 km ESE of Aphek

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NET Notes: Jos 3:4 Heb “know.”

NET Notes: Jos 3:7 Or more literally, “to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel.”

NET Notes: Jos 3:8 Heb “stand in the Jordan.” Here the repetition of the word “Jordan” would be redundant according to contemporary English style...

NET Notes: Jos 3:10 Heb “said.”

NET Notes: Jos 3:11 Or “Lord”; or “Master.”

NET Notes: Jos 3:13 Heb “the waters of the Jordan, the waters descending from above, will be cut off so that they will stand in one pile.”

NET Notes: Jos 3:14 The verb, though not in the Hebrew, is added for clarification.

NET Notes: Jos 3:15 The lengthy description of the priests’ arrival at the Jordan and the parenthetical reminder that the Jordan was at flood stage delay the climax...

NET Notes: Jos 3:16 For the location of Jericho see Map5 B2; Map6 E1; Map7 E1; Map8 E3; Map10 A2; Map11 A1.

NET Notes: Jos 3:17 Heb “and all Israel was crossing over on dry ground until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan.”

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