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Contemporary English Version

Joshua 3:9

Joshua spoke to the people: Come here and listen to what the Lord our God said he will do!

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - 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;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Joshua told the Israelites, “Come closer and listen to the words of the Lord your God.”
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra'el, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
King James Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."
English Standard Version
And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God."
New Century Version
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!"
Amplified Bible
Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here, and listen to the words of the LORD your God."
New American Standard Bible
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the wordes of the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come near, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshua said to the people of Isra'el, "Come here, and listen to the words of Adonai your God."
Darby Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come and listen to the words of the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Then Joshua said to the people, "Come here and listen to what the Lord your God has to say.
Literal Translation
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Come near here and hear the Words of Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iosua sayde vnto the children of Israel: Come hither, & heare the worde of the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah saide vnto the children of Israel: Come hyther, and heare the wordes of the Lorde your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.'
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the words of the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hearken to the word of the Lord our God.
English Revised Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue seide to the sones of Israel, Neiye ye hidur, and here ye the word of youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, `Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God;
Update Bible Version
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
World English Bible
Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
So Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
New Living Translation
So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come and listen to what the Lord your God says.
New Life Bible
Then Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here. Listen to the words of the Lord your God."
New Revised Standard
Joshua then said to the Israelites, "Draw near and hear the words of the Lord your God."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said Joshua, unto the sons of Israel, - Draw near hither, and hear ye the words of Yahweh your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear the word of the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
THE MESSAGE
Then Joshua addressed the People of Israel: "Attention! Listen to what God , your God, has to say. This is how you'll know that God is alive among you—he will completely dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. Look at what's before you: the Chest of the Covenant. Think of it—the Master of the entire earth is crossing the Jordan as you watch. Now take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe. When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the Chest of God , Master of all the earth, touch the Jordan's water, the flow of water will be stopped—the water coming from upstream will pile up in a heap."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."

Contextual Overview

7 The Lord told Joshua, "Beginning today I will show the people that you are their leader, and they will know that I am helping you as I helped Moses. 8 Now, tell the priests who are carrying the chest to go a little way into the river and stand there." 9 Joshua spoke to the people: Come here and listen to what the Lord our God said he will do! 10 Joshua told the people, "Make yourselves acceptable to worship the Lord , because he is going to do some amazing things for us." Then Joshua turned to the priests and said, "Take the chest and cross the Jordan River ahead of us." So the priests picked up the chest by its carrying poles and went on ahead. The Lord told Joshua, "Beginning today I will show the people that you are their leader, and they will know that I am helping you as I helped Moses. Now, tell the priests who are carrying the chest to go a little way into the river and stand there." Joshua spoke to the people: Come here and listen to what the Lord our God said he will do! The Canaanites, the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, and the Jebusites control the land on the other side of the river. But the living God will be with you and will force them out of the land when you attack. And now, God is going to prove that he's powerful enough to force them out. 11Just watch the sacred chest that belongs to the Lord , the ruler of the whole earth. As soon as the priests carrying the chest step into the Jordan, the water will stop flowing and pile up as if someone had built a dam across the river. The Lord has also said that each of the twelve tribes should choose one man to represent it.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hear the words: Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 12:8

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
"It was the woman you put here with me," the man said. "She gave me some of the fruit, and I ate it."
Genesis 3:13
The Lord God then asked the woman, "What have you done?" "The snake tricked me," she answered. "And I ate some of that fruit."
Genesis 3:17
The Lord said to the man, "You listened to your wife and ate fruit from that tree. And so, the ground will be under a curse because of what you did. As long as you live, you will have to struggle to grow enough food.
Genesis 3:19
You will have to sweat to earn a living; you were made out of soil, and you will once again turn into soil."
Genesis 3:20
The man Adam named his wife Eve because she would become the mother of all who live.
Genesis 3:21
Then the Lord God made clothes out of animal skins for the man and his wife.
Genesis 4:9
Afterwards the Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel?" "How should I know?" he answered. "Am I supposed to look after my brother?"
Genesis 11:5
But when the Lord came down to look at the city and the tower,
Genesis 16:8
and asked, "Hagar, where have you come from, and where are you going?" She answered, "I'm running away from Sarai, my owner."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, come hither,.... Very probably to the door of the tabernacle:

and hear the words of the Lord your God; which he was about to deliver to them as from him, and in his name.


 
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