Joshua 4:17

So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up now out of Jordan.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.

In Context

16Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan.

18And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's agreement came up out of Jordan and their feet came out on to dry land, the waters of Jordan went back to their place, overflowing its edges as before.

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Cross References

Daniel 3:26Then Nebuchadnezzar came near the door of the burning and flaming fire: he made answer and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, you servants of the Most High God, come out and come here. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego came out of the fire.

Acts 16:35But when it was day, the authorities sent the police, saying, Let these men go.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:11-20

10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. 11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the… Read the whole commentary →

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