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Verse Joshua 3:16. _ROSE UP UPON A HEAP_] That is, they continued to
accumulate, filling up the whole of the channel toward the source, and
the adjacent ground over which they were now spread, to a mu...
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The passage should run “rose up, an heap far away, by Adam, the city
which is beside Zarthan.”
The city of Adam is not named elsewhere, and Zarthan (mentioned here
and in marginal references.) has al...
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3. THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN
CHAPTER 3
_ 1. The Ark of Jehovah going before (Joshua 3:1)_
2. Jehovah's words to Joshua (Joshua 3:7)
3. Joshua's words to the people (Joshua 3:9)
4. The passage accompl...
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JOSHUA 3:1 TO JOSHUA 5:1. THE CROSSING OF JORDAN. Here we begin to
meet with more serious difficulties. The old tradition was that after
the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, they commemorated the ev...
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ADAM. The waters were divided at (or near) the city "Adam", and they
were heaped up at (or near) "Zaretun", another city far off from
"Adam".
ZARETAN in the land of Manasseh. Called Zartanah in 1 Kin...
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Jordan turned backwards
14. _when the people removed_ i.e. on the 10th day of Abib or Nisan,
the same month they before witnessed the departure from Egypt,
corresponding to our April or May....
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_VER._ 14-16. _AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE REMOVED FROM THEIR
TENTS,_ &C.— This was on Friday the 10th of the first month of
_Abib,_ or _Nisan,_ which answers to our 30th of April. On this gr...
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_The Parting of the Jordan Joshua 3:14-17_
14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to
pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant
before the people;
15...
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_THAT THE WATERS WHICH CAME DOWN FROM ABOVE STOOD AND ROSE UP UPON AN
HEAP VERY FAR FROM THE CITY ADAM, THAT IS BESIDE ZARETAN: AND THOSE
THAT CAME DOWN TOWARD THE SEA OF THE PLAIN, EVEN THE SALT SEA,...
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3:16 plain, (b-35) The _ Arabah_ . see chs. 11.2,16; 12.1,3; 18.18;
Deuteronomy 1:1 . Meaning strictly 'dry-[land],' but applied to the
narrow strip of land in the Jordan valley on both sides of the r...
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THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN
This is the initial miracle of Joshua's leadership. Its moral effect
upon the Israelite host is suggested in Joshua 3:7 and Joshua 4:14
that wrought upon the Canaanites in Joshu...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 3
THE PEOPLE CROSS THE RIVER JORDAN – JOSHU...
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VERY FAR FROM THE CITY ADAM, THAT IS BESIDE ZARETAN. — The written
text is _“in_ Adam,” but the Masorites read it _“from_ Adam.”
The reading makes no difference to the literal fact. The two
prepositio...
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וַ יַּעַמְד֡וּ הַ מַּיִם֩ הַ
יֹּרְדִ֨ים מִ לְ מַ֜עְלָה קָ֣מוּ נֵד
־אֶחָ֗ד הַרְחֵ֨ק מְאֹ֜ד _מֵֽ_
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CHAPTER IX.
JORDAN DIVIDED.
Joshua Ch. 3-4.
AT Joshua's command the priests carrying the ark are again in motion.
Bearing the sacred vessel on their shoulders, they make straight for
the bank of the...
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THE JORDAN SAFELY CROSSED
Joshua 3:1
For three days the host faced that swollen river. It was enough to
appall them, except that, like Abraham, they dared to behold it in the
light of the divine pro...
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The first movement in the actual advance of the people into the land
was of such a nature as to impress them with e truth of their positive
relation to God. There was nothing in this first advance cal...
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The text does not tell us why Joshua broke camp at Shittim, not more
than 6 miles from Jordan, to move closer to the river. Some suggest it
was to impress upon the people the fact that they could not...
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Mountain. Hebrew, "heap or bottle." The billows were forced to roll
back almost as far as the lake of Genesareth, where Sarthan stands,
about twenty leagues above Jericho. --- Sarthan. Hebrew, "rose u...
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We shall have a much better apprehension of the greatness of this
miracle, if we call to mind some of the circumstances connected with
it. Jordan, at this time, overflowed, from the mountains of ice w...
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The book of Joshua naturally follows the five books of Moses, and
indeed is connected more manifestly with those that go before it than
might appear to an ordinary reader. It opens not with a mere par...
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And now the people are to enter the promised land; but how enter it?
For Jordan, with its flood at the highest, lay as a barrier before the
people of God, guarding the territory of those that oppose t...
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THAT THE WATERS WHICH CAME DOWN FROM ABOVE,.... Above where the
priests' feet rested, and which came down from Mount Lebanon, and the
fountains of Jordan northward:
STOOD [AND] ROSE UP UPON AN HEAP;...
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That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up upon an
heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and those
that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt...
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_Adam_ The city of Adam, being more obscure, is described by its
nearness to a more known place, then eminent, but now unknown. The
meaning is, that the waters were stopped in their course at that
pla...
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1 Ioshua commeth to Iordan.
2 The Officers instruct the people for the passage.
7 The LORD incourageth Ioshua.
9 Ioshua incourageth the people.
14 The waters of Iordan are diuided.
[THE ARKE BORN...
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THE MIRACULOUS WALL OF WATER...
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THE CROSSING OF JORDAN
(vv. 1-17)
The next morning Joshua arose early and led Israel to the river. There
may be a question as regards the three days spoken of in chapter 2:11
and the three days the...
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14-17 Jordan overflowed all its banks. This magnified the power of
God, and his kindness to Israel. Although those who oppose the
salvation of God's people have all advantages, yet God can and will
co...
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THE WATERS ROSE UP UPON AN HEAP; which having been affirmed by heathen
writers to have been done by magicians, it is great impudence to
disbelieve or doubt of God's power to do it. ADAM, THAT IS BESID...
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Joshua 3:16 waters H4325 down H3381 (H8802) upstream H4605 stood H5975
(H8799) rose H6965 (H8804) in H259 heap H5067 very H3966 far H7368
(H8687) Adam H121 city H5892 beside H6654 Zaretan H6891 down H...
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Joshua 3:14 a
‘And so it was that when the people removed from their tents to pass
over Jordan, the priests bearing the Ark of the covenant being before
the people, and when those who bore the ark we...
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CONTENTS: The passing of Jordan.
CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests.
CONCLUSION: The believer is to go on in the way of duty, though
foreseeing great difficulties, depending on the divine sufficiency...
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Joshua 3:5. _Sanctify yourselves,_ by washings and purifications. The
Persians, when commissioned to march against Babylon, are called God's
sanctified ones; for the ministers of his vengeance are hol...
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_The priests _. .. _ before the people._
MINISTERS AS LEADERS OF THE PEOPLE
It is not always that either priests or Christian ministers have set
the example of going before in any hazardous undertaki...
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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.
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CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 3:15. Jordan overfloweth] Owing to the melting of the snow on
the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains. “The swellings of Jordan”
seems to have driven the wild beasts from their...
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EXPOSITION
THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN—
JOSHUA 3:7
THIS DAY WILL I BEGIN TO MAGNIFY THEE. "_Neque enim ante mysterium
baptismi exal-tatur Jesus, sed exaltatio ejus, et exaltatio in
conspectu pepuli,...
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As we get into chapter three,
Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and
they came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and they
lodged there before they passed...
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1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 7:46; Deuteronomy 3:17; Genesis 14:3; Joshua
15:2; Joshua 3:13; Matthew 14:24; Matthew 8:26; Matthew 8:27; Numbers
34:3;
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CROSSING THE JORDAN
Joshua 3:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
We wish to discuss the preparatory steps to the crossing of the
Jordan. These steps are set forth in the opening verses of our
chapter.
1. LODGING...
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Adam — The city Adam being more obscure, is described by its
nearness to a more known place, then eminent, but now unknown. The
meaning is, that the waters were stopped in their course at that
place,...