Joshua 3:5

And Joshua says to the people, “Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow YHWH does wonders in your midst.”

Literal Standard Version

In The King James Version

And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

In Context

4only, a distance is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; you do not come near to it, so that you know the way in which you go, for you have not passed over in the way before.”

6And Joshua speaks to the priests, saying, “Take up the Ark of the Covenant, and pass over before the people”; and they take up the Ark of the Covenant, and go before the people.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:10And YHWH says to Moses, “Go to the people and you have sanctified them today and tomorrow, and they have washed their garments,

Leviticus 20:7And you have sanctified yourselves, and you have been holy, for I [am] your God YHWH;

Joshua 3:13and it has been, at the resting of the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the Ark of YHWH, Lord of all the earth, in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan are cut off—the waters which are coming down from above—and they stand—one heap.”

Joshua 7:13Rise, sanctify the people, and you have said, Sanctify yourselves for tomorrow; for thus said YHWH, God of Israel: A devoted thing [is] in your midst, O Israel, you are not able to stand before your enemies until your turning aside the devoted thing from your midst;

Job 1:5and it comes to pass, when they have gone around the days of the banquet, that Job sends and sanctifies them, and has risen early in the morning, and caused burnt-offerings to ascend—the number of them all—for Job said, “Perhaps my sons have sinned, yet blessed God in their heart.” Thus Job does all the days.

Psalms 86:10For You [are] great, and doing wonders, || You [are] God alone.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 3:2-7

Preparation for Passing over the Jordan. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host; 3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4 Yet there shall be… Read the whole commentary →

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