Joshua 4:15

New Revised Standard

The Lord said to 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,

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,

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 who bore the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan, until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people crossed over in haste. ¹¹ As soon as all the people had finished crossing over, the ark of the Lord , and the priests, crossed over in front of the people. ¹² The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the Israelites, as Moses had ordered them. ¹³ About forty thousand armed for war crossed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for battle. ¹⁴ On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they stood in awe of him, as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life. ¹⁵ The Lord said to Joshua, ¹⁶ "Command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, to come up out of the Jordan." ¹⁷ Joshua therefore commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan." ¹⁸ When the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet touched dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, as before. ¹⁹ The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.

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Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
If Cain is avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy-sevenfold."

Leviticus 26:18
And if in spite of this you will not obey me, I will continue to punish you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21
If you continue hostile to me, and will not obey me, I will continue to plague you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:24
then I too will continue hostile to you: I myself will strike you sevenfold for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
I will continue hostile to you in fury; I in turn will punish you myself sevenfold for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
Moreover the word of the Lord came by the prophet Jehu son of Hanani against Baasha and his house, both because of all the evil that he did in the sight of the Lord , provoking him to anger with the work of his hands, in being like the house of Jeroboam, and also because he destroyed it.

Psalms 59:11
Do not kill them, or my people may forget; make them totter by your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

Psalms 79:12
Return sevenfold into the bosom of our neighbors the taunts with which they taunted you, O Lord!

Proverbs 6:31
Yet if they are caught, they will pay sevenfold; they will forfeit all the goods of their house.

Ezekiel 9:4
and said to him, "Go through the city, through Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of those who sigh and groan over all the abominations that are committed in it."

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.