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Joshua 4:17

So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Miracles;   Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- Easton Bible Dictionary - Ark;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jericho;   Joshua;   Quarry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jordan ;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Joshua, Book of;   Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia - Ark of the covenant;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua therefore commanded the Kohanim, saying, Come up out of the Yarden.
King James Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
Lexham English Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."
English Standard Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
New Century Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
New English Translation
So Joshua instructed the priests, "Come up from the Jordan!"
Amplified Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan."
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Ioshua therefore commanded the Priests, saying, Come ye vp out of Iorden.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."
Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua ordered the cohanim, "Come up out of the Yarden!"
Darby Translation
And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come out of the Jordan River."
George Lamsa Translation
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.
Good News Translation
Joshua did so,
Literal Translation
And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Rise out of the Jordan.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua comaunded the prestes, & sayde: Come vp out of Iordane.
American Standard Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of the Jordan.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Iosuah therefore commaunded the priestes, saying: Come ye vp out of Iordane.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of the Jordan.'
King James Version (1611)
Ioshua therefore commaunded the Priests, saying, Come yee vp out of Iordan.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.
English Revised Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up from the Jordan."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue comaundide to hem, and seide, Stie ye fro Jordan.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua commandeth the priests, saying, `Come ye up out of the Jordan.'
Update Bible Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.
Webster's Bible Translation
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
World English Bible
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out of the Jordan.
New King James Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."
New Living Translation
So Joshua gave the command.
New Life Bible
So Joshua told the religious leaders to come up from the Jordan.
New Revised Standard
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, - Come ye up out of the Jordan.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.
Revised Standard Version
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
THE MESSAGE
Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan."

Contextual Overview

10 For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly. 11 And when all the people had come to the other side, the ark of the Lord went over, and the priests, before the eyes of the people. 12 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them: 13 About forty thousand armed for war went over before the Lord to the fight, to the lowlands of Jericho. 14 That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel; and all the days of his life they went in fear of him, as they had gone in fear of Moses. 15 Then the Lord said to Joshua, 16 Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan. 17 So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan. 18 And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before. 19 So on the tenth day of the first month the people came up out of Jordan, and put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east side of Jericho.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Come ye up: Genesis 8:16-18, Daniel 3:26, Acts 16:23, Acts 16:35-39

Cross-References

Genesis 4:4
And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;
Genesis 4:11
And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;
Genesis 5:18
And Jared was a hundred and sixty-two years old when he became the father of Enoch:
Genesis 5:22
And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come, let us make a town, and a tower whose top will go up as high as heaven; and let us make a great name for ourselves, so that we may not be wanderers over the face of the earth.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.
Psalms 49:11
The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.
Daniel 4:30
The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Joshua therefore commanded the priests,.... In obedience to the Lord, and sent them an order:

saying; as follows:

come ye up out of Jordan; from the midst of the river to the bank of it, which was properly an ascent.


 
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