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Joshua 4:17

in Joshua 4

So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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This verse in Joshua 4

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel--It appeared clear from the chief part he acted, that he was the divinely appointed leader; for even the priests did not enter the river or quit their position, except at his command; and thenceforward his authority was as firmly established as that of his predecessor.

This site's exposition

Command the priests that bear

on Joshua 4:16-18

The chest is called the ark of the testimony here and the ark of the covenant everywhere else in the book, the two names Exodus 25:16 and 25:22 give the same object and the law kept inside it. The water answers to the soles of the priests' feet in both directions, cut off when they touched it at 3:15 and returned when they lifted at verse 18. It comes back in flood and over all his banks, so Israel is left standing on the far side of a river no man among them could now recross.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

Joshua therefore commanded the priests,.... In obedience to the Lord, and sent them an order: saying; as follows: come ye up out of Jordan; from the midst of the river to the bank of it, which was properly an ascent.

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

How low a condition soever God may at any time bring his priests or people to, let them patiently wait, till by his providence he shall call them up out of it, as the priests here were called to come up out of Jordan, and let them not be weary of waiting, while they have the tokens of God's presence with them, even the ark of the covenant, in the depth of their adversity.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְצַ֣וand he commanded

    vaytzavH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַכֹּהֲנִ֖יםthe priests

    hakohanimH3548 →750 times

  • לֵאמֹ֑ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • עֲל֖וּcome up

    ʾaluH5927 →890 times

  • מִן־from

    min-H4480 →1188 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּֽן׃the Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Daniel 3:26

    Then Nebuchadnezzar approached the door of the blazing fiery furnace and called out, “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, servants of the Most High God, come out!” So Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego came out of the…

    it leads to

    • Daniel 3:17

      If the God whom we serve exists, then He is able to deliver us from the blazing fiery furnace and from your hand, O king.

    • Revelation 19:5

      Then a voice came from the throne, saying: “Praise our God, all you who serve Him, and those who fear Him, small and great alike!”

    • Isaiah 52:12

      For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the LORD goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.

    • Daniel 4:2

      I am pleased to declare the signs and wonders that the Most High God has performed for me.

    • Joshua 4:10

      Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed…

  • Through

    Acts 16:23

    And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 2:10

      Do not fear what you are about to suffer. Look, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison to test you, and you will suffer tribulation for ten days. Be faithful…

    • 2 Timothy 2:9

      for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!

    • Matthew 27:63–66

      “Sir,” they said, “we remember that while He was alive that deceiver said, ‘After three days I will rise again.’

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 4 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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