Joshua 4:15

Good News Translation

Then the Lord told Joshua

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord told Joshua,

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Yehoshua, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,

Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, saying,

English Standard Version
And the Lord said to Joshua,

New Century Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

New English Translation
The Lord told Joshua,

Amplified Bible
Now the LORD said to Joshua,

New American Standard Bible
Now the LORD said to Joshua,

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Y'hoshua,

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to Joshua,

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua:

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Iosuah, saying:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Joshua,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to Josue,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

New King James Version
Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord had said to Joshua,

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Joshua,

New Revised Standard
The Lord said to Joshua,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Joshua, saying:

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him:

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to Joshua,

THE MESSAGE
God told Joshua, "Command the priests carrying the Chest of The Testimony to come up from the Jordan."

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the LORD said to Joshua,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ The priests stood in the middle of the Jordan until everything had been done that the Lord ordered Joshua to tell the people to do. This is what Moses had commanded. The people hurried across the river. ¹¹ When they were all on the other side, the priests with the Lord 's Covenant Box went on ahead of the people. ¹² The men of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and of half the tribe of Manasseh, ready for battle, crossed ahead of the rest of the people, as Moses had told them to do. ¹³ In the presence of the Lord about forty thousand men ready for war crossed over to the plain near Jericho. ¹⁴ What the Lord did that day made the people of Israel consider Joshua a great man. They honored him all his life, just as they had honored Moses. ¹⁵ Then the Lord told Joshua ¹⁶ to command the priests carrying the Covenant Box to come up out of the Jordan. ¹⁷ Joshua did so, ¹⁸ and when the priests reached the riverbank, the river began flowing once more and flooded its banks again. ¹⁹ The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped at Gilgal, east of Jericho.

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Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If seven lives are taken to pay for killing Cain, Seventy-seven will be taken if anyone kills me."

Leviticus 26:18
"If even after all of this you still do not obey me, I will increase your punishment seven times.

Leviticus 26:21
"If you still continue to resist me and refuse to obey me, I will again increase your punishment seven times.

Leviticus 26:24
then I will turn on you and punish you seven times harder than before.

Leviticus 26:28
then in my anger I will turn on you and again make your punishment seven times worse than before.

1 Kings 16:7
That message from the Lord against Baasha and his family was given by the prophet Jehu because of the sins that Baasha committed against the Lord . He aroused the Lord 's anger not only because of the evil he did, just as King Jeroboam had done before him, but also because he killed all of Jeroboam's family.

Psalms 59:11
Do not kill them, O God, or my people may forget. Scatter them by your strength and defeat them, O Lord, our protector.

Psalms 79:12
Lord, pay the other nations back seven times for all the insults they have hurled at you.

Proverbs 6:31

Ezekiel 9:4
"Go through the whole city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the forehead of everyone who is distressed and troubled because of all the disgusting things being done in the city."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Joshua,.... When all the people had passed over jordan:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The passage of the priests to the further bank had been already referred to, Joshua 4:11; but the writer, in observance of his general plan (compare introductory remarks to Joshua 3:0), re-introduces it here as the leading feature in the concluding section of his account, and (as before) with mention of God’s special direction about it. The statement that on the removal of the ark the waters of Jordan at once returned to their former level Joshua 4:18, heightens the impression which is especially inculcated throughout - that the whole transaction was extraordinary and miraculous. The details and incidents of the passage are no doubt open to manifold discussion: but all such discussion will be futile unless it proceed throughout on the admission that we have here before us the record of a distinctly supernatural interposition: compare the introduction to the Book of Joshua.