Joshua 3:1
And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan, he, and all the children of Israel, and they abode there for three days.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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In Context
2After which, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,
Cross References
Genesis 22:3So Abraham rising up in the night, saddled his ass: and took with him two young men, and Isaac his son: and when he had cut wood for the holocaust he went his way to the place which God had commanded him.
Joshua 2:1And Josue the son of Nun sent from Setim two men, to spy secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land and the city of Jericho. n They went and entered into the house of a woman that was a harlot named Rahab, and lodged with her.
Joshua 6:15But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the city, as it was ordered, seven times.
Joshua 8:10And rising early in the morning, he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army environed with the aid of the fighting men.
1 Samuel 17:20David therefore arose in the morning, and gave the charge of the flock to the keeper: and went away loaded as Isai had commanded him. And he came to the place of Magala, and to the army, which was going out to fight, and shouted for the battle.
Jeremiah 7:13And now, because you have done all these works, saith the Lord: and I have spoken to you rising up early, and speaking, and you have not heard: and I have called you, and you have not answered:
Matthew Henry on Joshua 3:1
This chapter, and that which follows it, give us the history of Israel's passing through Jordan into Canaan, and a very memorable history it is. Long afterwards, they are told to remember what God did for them between Shittim (whence they decamped, ver. 1 ) and Gilgal, where they next pitched, ch. iv. 19 , Mic. vi. 5 , that they might know the righteousness of the Lord. By Joshua's order they marched up to the river's side, ( ver. 1 ), and then almighty power led them through it. They passed through the Red Sea… Read the whole commentary →