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Joshua 3:12

So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Miracles;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jordan, the River;   Miracles Wrought through Servants of God;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Miracle;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Joshua the son of nun;   Miracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jericho;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jordan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ark;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Lachish;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Tabernacle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Hebrew Names Version
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Yisra'el, for every tribe a man.
King James Version
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Lexham English Bible
So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
English Standard Version
Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
New Century Version
Now choose twelve men from among you, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
New English Translation
Now select for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one per tribe.
Amplified Bible
"So now take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe.
New American Standard Bible
"Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Nowe therefore take from among you twelue men out of the tribes of Israel, out of euery tribe a man.
Legacy Standard Bible
So now, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Complete Jewish Bible
Now choose yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Isra'el, one man for each tribe.
Darby Translation
And now take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Easy-to-Read Version
Now choose twelve men, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel.
George Lamsa Translation
Now therefore take twelve men from all the tribes of Israel, a man out of each tribe.
Good News Translation
Now choose twelve men, one from each of the tribes of Israel.
Literal Translation
And now, take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take now therfore twolue men out of ye trybes of Israel, out of euery trybe one.
American Standard Version
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Nowe therfore take from among you twelue men out of the tribes of Israel, out of euery tribe a man.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
King James Version (1611)
Now therefore take yee twelue men out of the Tribes of Israel, out of euery Tribe a man.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Choose for yourselves twelve men of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe.
English Revised Version
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Berean Standard Bible
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Make ye redi twelue men of the twelue lynagis of Israel, bi ech lynage o man.
Young's Literal Translation
and now, take for you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, one man -- one man for a tribe;
Update Bible Version
Now therefore take for yourselves twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
Webster's Bible Translation
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
World English Bible
Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
New King James Version
Now therefore, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from every tribe.
New Living Translation
Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
New Life Bible
Now choose twelve men from the families of Israel, one man for each family.
New Revised Standard
So now select twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Now, therefore, take you twelve men, out of the tribes of Israel, - one man severally for each tribe;
Douay-Rheims Bible
Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe.
Revised Standard Version
Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Contextual Overview

7 And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you glory in the eyes of all Israel, so that they may see that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 8 And you are to give orders to the priests who take up the ark of the agreement, and say, When you come to the edge of the waters of Jordan, go no further. 9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God. 10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living God is among you, and that he will certainly send out from before you the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite. 11 See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the earth is going over before you into Jordan. 12 So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe. 13 And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:4 - three Matthew 19:28 - the twelve

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
And the Lord God said, It is not good for the man to be by himself: I will make one like himself as a help to him
Genesis 2:20
And the man gave names to all cattle and to the birds of the air and to every beast of the field; but Adam had no one like himself as a help.
Genesis 2:22
And the bone which the Lord God had taken from the man he made into a woman, and took her to the man.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lord God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, I was tricked by the deceit of the snake and I took it.
Genesis 3:15
And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.
Genesis 3:20
And the man gave his wife the name of Eve because she was the mother of all who have life.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made for Adam and for his wife coats of skins for their clothing.
Genesis 3:24
So he sent the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden he put winged ones and a flaming sword turning every way to keep the way to the tree of life.
Job 31:33
If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,
Proverbs 19:3
By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore take ye twelve men,.... For what end and purpose is not mentioned. Abarbinel is of opinion, that they were chosen and appointed, that every man might pitch upon and take a place for his tribe to encamp in, when they came on the other side Jordan: whether this was Joshua's view or no is not certain; however, the use he made of these, thus provided by divine direction, is related Joshua 4:2;

and these were to be taken out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man; Levi not reckoned, having no part in the land; and so we find that tribe left out in other accounts, when there was a choice of twelve men out of each of the tribes, Numbers 13:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 3:12. Take you twelve menJoshua 4:2.


 
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