Joshua 4:17

Joshua ordered the priests to step up from the Jordan,

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

16“Order the priests who carry the ark of the testimony to step up from the Jordan.”

18and whenever the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord came up from the Jordan, whenever the soles of the feet of the priests were lifted on to the dry ground, the waters of the Jordan flowed back into their place and overflowed their banks as before.

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Cross References

Acts 16:35In the morning the Magistrates sent the guards with an order for the men to be discharged.

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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