Jordan overfloweth all his banks] The rank jungle, which fills the bed (150 ft. deep) that Jordan has hollowed out at the bottom of the rift, down which it flows, marks the extent of the April floods. The space is from 200 yards to 1 m. broad, and is what Jeremiah calls (Jeremiah 12:5; Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44) the 'Pride' or 'Swelling' of Jordan. In Sir 24:26 we find a proverbial phrase, 'full as.. Jordan in the time of harvest' (RV).
Verse Joshua 3:15. _AND THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS - WERE DIPPED IN THE BRIM OF_ _THE WATER_] Thus we find that every thing occurred exactly in the way in which Joshua had foretold it. This must have gre...
JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS - Rather “is full up to all his banks,” i. e. “brim-full.” This remark strikingly illustrates the suddenness and completeness, not less than the greatness, of the marv...
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...
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...
FOR. Note the parenthesis. OVERFLOWETH. So to the present day. BANKS. Hebrew found only four times in O.T.; here, Jos 4:18. 1 Chronicles 12:15.Isaiah 8:7. All but the last, of the Jordan. HARVEST. b...
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....
_for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest_ In the deeply sunken, tropical valley of the Jordan, the harvest had already commenced, and the snow on Hermon having begun to melt, the...
_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...
_VER._ 15. (_JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS ALL THE TIME OF HARVEST_)— The Jordan overflows at the time of barley harvest, (1 Chronicles 12:15.) at the beginning of the summer, contrary to other riv...
_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...
_AND AS THEY THAT BARE THE ARK WERE COME UNTO JORDAN, AND THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS THAT BARE THE ARK WERE DIPPED IN THE BRIM OF THE WATER, (FOR JORDAN OVERFLOWETH ALL HIS BANKS ALL THE TIME OF HARVEST,...
COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 3 THE PEOPLE CROSS THE RIVER JORDAN – JOSHU...
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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...
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 prom...
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...
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...
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his (f) banks all the time of harve...
Water. Thus they manifested the strength of their faith. (Calmet) --- Immediately the obedient waters divided, and the gravel or sand was left dry, ver. 17. (Haydock) --- Channel. The barley harvest w...
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...
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...
15._And as they that bare the ark, _etc The valor of the priests in proceeding boldly beyond the bed into the water itself, was deserving of no mean praise, since they might have been afraid of being...
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...
AND AS THEY THAT BARE THE ARK WERE COME UNTO JORDAN,.... Not to the bank, which was overflowed, but to the extremity of the water overflowing: AND THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS THAT BARE THE ARK WERE DIPPE...
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)...
_The feet of the priests were dipped in the brim of the water_ The stream stopped immediately, as if a sluice had been let down to dam it up; so that the waters above swelled, stood on a heap, and ran...
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...
and as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water (for Jordan, barely a hundred feet wide in the dry season, OVERF...
THE MIRACULOUS WALL OF WATER...
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...
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 c...
Which is also noted 1 CHRONICLES 12:15 /APC SIR 24:26, and by Aristoeas in the History of the LXX. Interpreters. This is meant not of the wheat harvest, but of the barley harvest, (which was before it...
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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 wer...
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...
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...
_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...
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.
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...
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...
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, i...
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...
1 Chronicles 12:15; Deuteronomy 16:1; Isaiah 26:6; Jeremiah 12:5;...
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...
All the time of harvest — This is meant not of wheat — harvest, but of the barley — harvest, as is manifest from their keeping the passover at their first entrance, Joshua 5:10, which was kept on the...