Joshua 3:14
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New International Version (©1984)
So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So the people left their camp to cross the Jordan, and the priests who were carrying the Ark of the Covenant went ahead of them.

English Standard Version (©2001)
So when the people set out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
So when the people set out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people,

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So they broke camp to cross the Jordan River. The priests who carried the ark of the promise went ahead of the people.

King James Bible
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;

American King James Version
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;

American Standard Version
And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;

Bible in Basic English
So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;

Douay-Rheims Bible
So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant. went on before them.

Darby Bible Translation
And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, that the priests bearing the ark of the covenant were before the people;

English Revised Version
And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the covenant being before the people;

Webster's Bible Translation
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;

World English Bible
It happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people,

Young's Literal Translation
And it cometh to pass, in the journeying of the people from their tents to pass over the Jordan, and of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people,

Geneva Study Bible

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;

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Jos 3:14-17. The Waters of Jordan Are Divided.

14-16. And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, &c.-To understand the scene described we must imagine the band of priests with the ark on their shoulders, standing on the depressed edge of the river, while the mass of the people were at a mile's distance. Suddenly the whole bed of the river was dried up; a spectacle the more extraordinary in that it took place in the time of harvest, corresponding to our April or May-when "the Jordan overfloweth all its banks." The original words may be more properly rendered "fills all its banks." Its channel, snow-fed from Lebanon, was at its greatest height-brimful; a translation which gives the only true description of the state of Jordan in harvest as observed by modern travellers. The river about Jericho is, in ordinary appearance, about fifty or sixty yards in breadth. But as seen in harvest, it is twice as broad; and in ancient times, when the hills on the right and left were much more drenched with rain and snow than since the forests have disappeared, the river must, from a greater accession of water, have been broader still than at harvest-time in the present day.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:14-17 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 conquer. This passage over Jordan, as an entrance to Canaan, after their long, weary wanderings in the wilderness, shadowed out the believer's passage through death to heaven, after he has finished his wanderings in this sinful world. Jesus, typified by the ark, hath gone before, and he crossed the river when it most flooded the country around. Let us treasure up experiences of His faithful and tender care, that they may help our faith and hope in the last conflict.


Psalm 132:8 Arise, O LORD, to Your resting place, You and the ark of Your strength.
Acts 7:44 "Our fathers had the tabernacle of testimony in the wilderness, just as He who spoke to Moses directed him to make it according to the pattern which he had seen. (NASB ©1995)

Agreement Ahead Ark Bare Bearing Bore Broke Camp Carrying Covenant Cross Jordan Journeying Moved Priests Removed Tents

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;

bearing the ark Jos 3:3,5 6:6 De 31:26 Jer 3:16 Ac 7:44,45 1Co 1:24,25 Heb 9:4

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