Joshua 4:17

And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the Jordan.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant, to come up out of the Jordan.

18And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned into the channel, and ran as they were wont before.

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Cross References

Daniel 3:26Then Nabuchodonosor came to the door of the burning fiery furnace, and said: Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago, ye servants of the most high God, go ye forth, and come. And immediately Sidrach, Misach, and Abdenago went out from the midst of the fire.

Acts 16:35And when the day was come, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those 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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