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Legacy Standard Bible

Joshua 4:15

Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Priest;  

Dictionaries:

- 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;  

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,
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,
Good News Translation
Then the Lord told 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

10Now the priests who carried the ark were standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that Yahweh had commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried and crossed. 11And it happened when all the people had completed crossing, that the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed before the people. 12And the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over in battle array before the sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them; 13about 40,000 equipped for war crossed for battle before Yahweh to the desert plains of Jericho. 14On that day, Yahweh magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, so that they feared him, just as they had feared Moses all the days of his life. 15Then Yahweh said to Joshua, 16"Command the priests who carry the ark of the testimony that they come up from the Jordan." 17So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up from the Jordan." 18So it happened when the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh had come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and went over all its banks as before. 19Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.

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Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold,Then Lamech seventy‑sevenfold."
Leviticus 26:18
If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will discipline you seven times more for your sins.
Leviticus 26:21
‘If then, you walk in hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times according to your sins.
Leviticus 26:24
then I will walk in hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven times for your sins.
Leviticus 26:28
then I will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven times for your sins.
1 Kings 16:7
Moreover, the word of Yahweh through the hand of the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani also came about against Baasha and his household, both because of all the evil which he did in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he struck it.
Psalms 59:11
Do not slay them, or my people will forget;Make them wander about by Your power, and bring them down,O Lord, our shield.
Psalms 79:12
And return to our neighbors sevenfold into their bosomThe reproach with which they have reproached You, O Lord.
Proverbs 6:31
But when he is found, he must repay sevenfold;He must give all the substance of his house.
Ezekiel 9:4
Yahweh said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, even through the midst of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh and groan over all the abominations which are being done in its midst."

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.


 
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