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Joshua 3:5

Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, because the Lord will do wonders among you tomorrow.”

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Tabernacle;   Scofield Reference Index - Miracles;   Thompson Chain Reference - Joshua;   Miracles;   Sanctification;   Wonders;   The Topic Concordance - Sanctification;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jordan, the River;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - War, Holy War;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Presence of God;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jericho;   Joshua;   War;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ark;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Lachish;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Wonder;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Miracle;   Sacrifice;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
King James Version
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves, because tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders in your midst."
English Standard Version
Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you."
New Century Version
Then Joshua told the people, "Make yourselves holy, because tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you."
New English Translation
Joshua told the people, "Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you."
Amplified Bible
Then Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves [for His purpose], for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders (miracles) among you."
New American Standard Bible
Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do miracles among you."
Geneva Bible (1587)
(Nowe Ioshua had saide vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morowe the Lord will doe wonders among you)
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joshua said to the people, "Set yourselves apart as holy, for tomorrow Yahweh will do wondrous deeds among you."
Contemporary English Version
Joshua told the people, "Make yourselves acceptable to worship the Lord , because he is going to do some amazing things for us."
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, because tomorrow Adonai is going to work wonders among you."
Darby Translation
And Joshua said to the people, Hallow yourselves; for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders in your midst.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua told the people, "Make yourselves pure. Tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among us."
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
Good News Translation
Joshua told the people, "Purify yourselves, because tomorrow the Lord will perform miracles among you."
Literal Translation
And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow Jehovah will do wonders among you.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iosua sayde vnto the people: Halowe youre selues, for tomorow shal yi LORDE bringe wonderous thinges to passe amoge you.
American Standard Version
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders among you.
Bible in Basic English
And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah sayde vnto the people: Sanctifie your selues, for to morowe the Lord shal do wonders among you.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.'
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua said vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morrow the Lord wil do woders among you.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
English Revised Version
And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
Berean Standard Bible
Then Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue seide to the puple, Be ye halewid, for to morew the Lord schal make merueilis among you.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua saith unto the people, `Sanctify yourselves, for to-morrow doth Jehovah do in your midst wonders.'
Update Bible Version
And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
World English Bible
Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you.
New King James Version
And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
New Living Translation
Then Joshua told the people, "Purify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do great wonders among you."
New Life Bible
Then Joshua said to the people, "Make yourselves holy. For tomorrow the Lord will do powerful works among you."
New Revised Standard
Then Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said Joshua unto the people, Hallow yourselves, - for, to-morrow, will Yahweh do in your midst, wonderful things.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."
THE MESSAGE
Then Joshua addressed the people: "Sanctify yourselves. Tomorrow God will work miracle-wonders among you."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joshua said to the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."

Contextual Overview

1Joshua started early the next morning and left the Acacia Grove with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and stayed there before crossing. 2After three days the officers went through the camp 3and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God carried by the Levitical priests, you are to break camp and follow it. 4But keep a distance of about a thousand yards between yourselves and the ark. Don’t go near it, so that you can see the way to go, for you haven’t traveled this way before.” 5Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, because the Lord will do wonders among you tomorrow.” 6Then he said to the priests, “Carry the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Sanctify: Joshua 7:13, Exodus 19:10-15, Leviticus 10:3, Leviticus 20:7, Numbers 11:8, 1 Samuel 16:5, Job 1:5, Joel 2:16, John 17:19

the Lord: Joshua 3:13, Joshua 3:15, Psalms 86:10, Psalms 114:1-7

Reciprocal: Exodus 19:23 - Set bounds Joshua 11:6 - morrow 2 Kings 7:1 - To morrow

Cross-References

Genesis 2:17
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for on the day you eat from it, you will certainly die.”
Genesis 3:2
The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
Genesis 3:3
But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’”
Genesis 3:6
The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of both of them were opened, and they knew they were naked; so they sewed fig leaves together and made coverings for themselves.
Genesis 3:10
And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
Genesis 3:13
So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?”
Genesis 3:14
So the Lord God said to the serpent:
Genesis 3:15
I will put hostility between you and the woman,and between your offspring and her offspring.He will strike your head,and you will strike his heel.
Genesis 3:22
The Lord God said, “Since the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil, he must not reach out, take from the tree of life, eat, and live forever.”

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua said unto the people,.... On the third day; and the thirtieth day of the mourning for Moses, Jarchi says, was the first of the three days, and that being the seventh day of the month, this must be the ninth, as it is most clear the morrow was the tenth:

sanctify yourselves; in a ceremonial sense, by washing their bodies and their clothes, and abstaining from their wives; and in a moral sense, by acts of religion and devotion, by prayer and meditation, and the exercise of repentance and, good works: it may denote that sanctification is necessary to our passage over Jordan, or through death to the heavenly Canaan, for without holiness no man shall see the Lord:

for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you: in their sight and presence, and for them, by dividing the waters of Jordan, that they might pass through it as on dry land; this, as Kimchi says, was the tenth of Nisan, as is plain from Joshua 4:19.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 3:5. Sanctify yourselves — What was implied in this command we are not informed; but it is likely that it was the same as that given by Moses, Exodus 19:10-14. They were to wash themselves and their garments, and abstain from every thing that might indispose their minds from a profitable attention to the miracle about to be wrought in their behalf.


 
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