JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:1__ Chapters Joshua 3:1 and Joshua 4:1 form a unit, with the common theme of crossing the Jordan. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:3 On the construction of the ARK OF THE COVENANT and its significance, see Exodus 25:10. It was normally kept in the Most Holy Place of the tabernacle (and later in the temple). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:4 Two thousand CUBITS is just over half a mile (0.8 km). From that distance, more people would have been able to see the ark and follow its path. The holiness of the ark may also have prompted this safe distance. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for ... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:5 CONSECRATE YOURSELVES. Sanctifying, or “separating,” oneself included washing one’s clothes and temporarily refraining from sexual relations (see Exodus 19:10). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:7 TODAY I WILL BEGIN TO EXALT YOU. The Lord acted through Joshua so that the people “stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses” (Joshua 4:14). ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img; i [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:10 These seven people groups are described in Deuteronomy 7:1 as “seven nations more numerous and mightier than yourselves.” THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH. The literal Hebrew (see esv footnote) strongly connects the Lord to his ark (see Joshua 3:13) and... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:15 The Jordan OVERFLOWS ALL ITS BANKS—caused by spring rains and snowmelt from the Mount Hermon region and the Jordan’s headwaters—THROUGHOUT THE TIME OF HARVEST, that is, the grain harvest of March–April. Normally the Jordan has a 3- to 10-foot (0.9- to 3.0-m) depth and 90-... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:16 Apparently the water was stopped as far upriver as ADAM, identified with modern Damiya, east of the Jordan and just south of where the Jordan and the Jabbok River join (about 18 miles [29 km] north of the fords of the Jordan). It is a place where mudslides have occasionall... [ Continue Reading ]
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 3:17 ALL ISRAEL... THE NATION. In Egypt and in the wilderness, Israel was referred to as a “people.” Now that they have entered the Promised Land, they begin to be called a “nation.” ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); for (var i=0, len=images.length, img;... [ Continue Reading ]