Joshua 4:17

And Joshua charged the priests, saying, Go up out of Jordan.

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

16Charge the priests that bear the ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.

18And it came to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, that the water of Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.

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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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