Joshua 4:16
“Command the priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant to ascend from the Jordan.”
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
In Context
17And he commanded them, saying, “Ascend from the Jordan.”
Cross References
Exodus 25:16And you shall place the testimony, which I will give to you, in the ark.
Revelation 11:19And the temple of God was opened in heaven. And the Ark of his Testament was seen in his temple. And there were lightnings and voices and thunders, and an earthquake, and great hail.
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 →