Joshua Chapter 3

Joshua Chapter 3
1 Then Joshua rose very early, and they
removed from Shittim, and came to
Jordan, he, and all the children of Israel,
and lodged there, before they went over.
2 And after three days the officers went
throughout the host,
3 And commanded the people, saying,
When ye see the ark of the covenant of
the Lord your God, and the priests of the
Levites bearing it, ye shall depart from
your place, and go after it.
4 Yet there shall be a space between you
and it, about two thousand cubits by
measure: ye shall not come near unto it,
that ye may know the way, by the which
ye shall go: for ye have not gone this
way in times past. 5 (Now Joshua had
said unto the people, Sanctify
yourselves: for tomorrow the Lord will
do wonders among you)
6 Also Joshua spake unto the priests,
saying, Take up the ark of the covenant,
and go over before the people: so they
took up the ark of the covenant, and went
before the people.
7 Then the Lord said unto Joshua, This
day will I begin to magnify thee in the
sight of all Israel, which shall know, that
as I was with Moses, so will I be with
thee.
8 Thou shalt therefore command the
priests that bear the ark of the covenant,
saying, When ye are come to the brink of
the waters of Jordan, ye shall stand still
in Jordan.
9 Then Joshua said unto the children of
Israel, Come hither, and hear the words
of the Lord your God.
10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall
know that the living God is among you,
and that he will certainly cast out before
you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and
the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the
Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the
Jebusites.
11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the
Lord of all the world passeth before you
into Jordan.
12 Now therefore take from among you
twelve men out of the tribes of Israel,
out of every tribe a man.
13 And as soon as the soles of the feet of
the priests (that bear the ark of the Lord
God the Lord of all the world) shall stay
in the waters of Jordan, the waters of
Jordan shall be cut off: for the waters
that come from above, shall stand still
upon an heap.
14 Then when the people were departed
from their tents to go over Jordan, the
priests bearing the ark of the covenant,
went before the people. 15 And as they
that bear the ark came unto Jordan, and
the feet of the priests that bear the ark
were dipped in the brink of the water,
(for Jordan useth to fill all his banks all
the time of harvest)
16 Then the waters that came down from
above, stayed and rose upon an heap and
departed far from the city of Adam, that
was beside Zaretan: but the waters that
came down toward the sea of the
wilderness, even the salt sea, failed, and
were cut off: so the people went right
over against Jericho. 17 But the priests
that bear the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, stood dry within Jordan ready
prepared, and all the Israelites went
over dry, until all the people were gone
clean over through Jordan.