约书亚记 3:12

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

現在你們要從以色列眾支派中選十二個人，每支派一人。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
你 们 现 在 要 从 以 色 列 支 派 中 拣 选 十 二 个 人 ， 每 支 派 一 人 ，

Contextual Overview

⁷ Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to make you great in the opinion of all the Israelites so the people will know I am with you just as I was with Moses. ⁸ Tell the priests who carry the Ark of the Agreement to go to the edge of the Jordan River and stand in the water." ⁹ Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God. ¹⁰ Here is proof that the living God is with you and that he will force out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. ¹¹ The Ark of the Agreement with the Lord of the whole world will go ahead of you into the Jordan River. ¹² Now choose twelve men from among you, one from each of the twelve tribes of Israel. ¹³ The priests will carry the Ark of the Lord , the Master of the whole world, into the Jordan ahead of you. When they step into the water, it will stop. The river will stop flowing and will stand up in a heap."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua 4:2, Joshua 4:9

Reciprocal: Joshua 18:4 - three Matthew 19:28 - the twelve

Cross-References

Genesis 2:18
Then the Lord God said, "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is right for him."

Genesis 2:20
The man gave names to all the tame animals, to the birds in the sky, and to all the wild animals. But Adam did not find a helper that was right for him.

Genesis 2:22
The Lord God used the rib from the man to make a woman, and then he brought the woman to the man.

Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "How could you have done such a thing?" She answered, "The snake tricked me, so I ate the fruit."

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

Genesis 3:20
The man named his wife Eve, because she was the mother of all the living.

Genesis 3:21
The Lord God made clothes from animal skins for the man and his wife and dressed them.

Genesis 3:24
After God forced humans out of the garden, he placed angels and a sword of fire that flashed around in every direction on its eastern border. This kept people from getting to the tree of life.

Job 31:33
I have not hidden my sin as others do, secretly keeping my guilt to myself.

Proverbs 19:3
People's own foolishness ruins their lives, but in their minds they blame the Lord .

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Now therefore take ye twelve men,.... For what end and purpose is not mentioned. Abarbinel is of opinion, that they were chosen and appointed, that every man might pitch upon and take a place for his tribe to encamp in, when they came on the other side Jordan: whether this was Joshua's view or no is not certain; however, the use he made of these, thus provided by divine direction, is related Joshua 4:2;

and these were to be taken out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man; Levi not reckoned, having no part in the land; and so we find that tribe left out in other accounts, when there was a choice of twelve men out of each of the tribes, Numbers 13:4.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 3:12. Take you twelve men — Joshua 4:2.