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Joshua 3:5

(Nowe Ioshua had saide vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morowe the Lord will doe wonders among you)

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

Christian Standard Bible®
Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, because the Lord will do wonders among you tomorrow.”
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."
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

1 Then Ioshua rose very earely, and they remoued from Shittim, and came to Iorden, he, and all the children of Israel, and lodged there, before they went ouer. 2 And after three dayes the officers went throughout the hoste, 3 And commanded the people, saying, When ye see the Arke of the couenat of the Lord your God, and the Priestes of the Leuites bearing it, ye shall depart from your place, and goe after it. 4 Yet there shalbe a space betweene you and it, about two thousande cubites by measure: ye shall not come neere vnto it, that ye may knowe the way, by the which ye shall goe: for ye haue not gone this way in times past. 5 (Nowe Ioshua had saide vnto the people, Sanctifie your selues: for to morowe the Lord will doe wonders among you) 6 Also Ioshua spake vnto the Priestes, saying, Take vp the Arke of the couenant, and goe ouer before the people: so they tooke vp the Arke of the couenant, & went before the people.

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 of the tree of knowledge of good and euill, thou shalt not eate of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die the death.
Genesis 3:2
And the woman said vnto the serpent, We eate of the fruite of the trees of the garden,
Genesis 3:3
But of the fruite of the tree which is in the middes of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eate of it, neither shall ye touche it, lest ye die.
Genesis 3:6
So the woman (seeing that the tree was good for meate, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to get knowledge) tooke of the fruite thereof, and did eate, & gaue also to her husband with her, and he did eate.
Genesis 3:7
Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knewe that they were naked, and they sewed figge tree leaues together, and made them selues breeches.
Genesis 3:10
Who saide, I heard thy voyce in the garden, and was afraide: because I was naked, therefore I hid my selfe.
Genesis 3:13
And the Lorde God saide to the woman, Why hast thou done this? And the woman said, The serpent beguiled me, and I did eate.
Genesis 3:14
Then the Lord God said to the serpent, Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattell, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou goe, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy life.
Genesis 3:15
I wil also put enimitie betweene thee and the woman, and betweene thy seede & her seede. He shall breake thine head, and thou shalt bruise his heele.
Genesis 3:22
And the Lord God said, Beholde, the man is become as one of vs, to knowe good and euill. And nowe lest he put foorth his hand, and take also of ye tree of life & eate & liue for euer,

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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