Exodus 33:14-15
33:14 And the Lord said, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”
33:15 And Moses said to him, “If your presence does not go with us, do not take us up from here.
Deuteronomy 1:33
1:33 the one who was constantly going before you to find places for you to set up camp. He appeared by fire at night and cloud by day, to show you the way you ought to go.
Joshua 3:2-6
3:2 After three days the leaders went through the camp
3:3 and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the
Lord your God
being carried by the Levitical priests, you must leave here
and walk
behind it.
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.
Joshua 3:11-17
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.
Jeremiah 31:8-9
31:8 Then I will reply, ‘I will bring them back from the land of the north.
I will gather them in from the distant parts of the earth.
Blind and lame people will come with them,
so will pregnant women and women about to give birth.
A vast throng of people will come back here.
31:9 They will come back shedding tears of contrition.
I will bring them back praying prayers of repentance.
I will lead them besides streams of water,
along smooth paths where they will never stumble.
I will do this because I am Israel’s father;
Ephraim is my firstborn son.’”
Ezekiel 20:6
20:6 On that day I swore
to bring them out of the land of Egypt to a land which I had picked out
for them, a land flowing with milk and honey,
the most beautiful of all lands.