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The Darby Translation

Joshua 4:17

And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the 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!"
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.
Bible in Basic English
So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of 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 And the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Jehovah had commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hasted and passed over. 11 And it came to pass, when all the people had completely gone over, that the ark of Jehovah went over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, went over in array before the children of Israel, as Moses had spoken to them. 13 About forty thousand armed for military service passed over before Jehovah to the war, unto the plains of Jericho. 14 On that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they had feared Moses, all the days of his life. 15 And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying, 16 Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan. 17 And Joshua commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan. 18 And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah had come up out of the midst of the Jordan, [when] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on to the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and they flowed as previously, over all its banks. 19 And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the eastern extremity 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, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock, and of their fat. And Jehovah looked upon Abel, and on his offering;
Genesis 4:11
And now be thou cursed from the ground, which hath opened its mouth to receive thy brother's blood from thy hand.
Genesis 5:18
And Jared lived a hundred and sixty-two years, and begot Enoch.
Genesis 5:22
And Enoch walked with God after he had begotten Methushelah three hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.
Genesis 11:4
And they said, Come on, let us build ourselves a city and a tower, the top of which [may reach] to the heavens; and let us make ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.
2 Samuel 18:18
Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a monument, which is in the king's dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance; and he called the monument after his own name; and it is called unto this day, Absalom's memorial.
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever, their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.
Daniel 4:30
the king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?

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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