Joshua 4:15

Amplified Bible

Now the LORD said to Joshua,

Parallel Translations

English Standard Version
And the Lord said to Joshua,

Update Bible Version
And Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

English Revised Version
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

New Century Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

New English Translation
The Lord told Joshua,

Webster's Bible Translation
And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

World English Bible
Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And the Lord seide to Josue,

Young's Literal Translation
And Jehovah speaketh unto Joshua, saying,

Berean Standard Bible
Then the LORD said to Joshua,

American Standard Version
And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,

Bible in Basic English
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And the Lorde spake vnto Iosuah, saying:

Complete Jewish Bible
Adonai said to Y'hoshua,

Darby Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the Lord said to Joshua,

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying:

King James Version (1611)
And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

New Life Bible
The Lord said to Joshua,

New Revised Standard
The Lord said to Joshua,

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then spake Yahweh unto Joshua, saying:

Geneva Bible (1587)
And the Lord spake vnto Ioshua, saying,

George Lamsa Translation
And the LORD said to Joshua,

Good News Translation
Then the Lord told Joshua

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to him:

Revised Standard Version
And the LORD said to Joshua,

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,

Christian Standard Bible®
The Lord told Joshua,

Hebrew Names Version
The LORD spoke to Yehoshua, saying,

King James Version
And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,

Lexham English Bible
Then Yahweh said to Joshua, saying,

Literal Translation
And Jehovah spoke to Joshua, saying,

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And the LORDE sayde vnto Iosua:

THE MESSAGE
God told Joshua, "Command the priests carrying the Chest of The Testimony to come up from the Jordan."

New American Standard Bible
Now the LORD said to Joshua,

New King James Version
Then the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

New Living Translation
The Lord had said to Joshua,

New American Standard Bible (1995)
Now the LORD said to Joshua,

Legacy Standard Bible
Then Yahweh said to Joshua,

Contextual Overview

¹⁰For the priests who carried the ark were standing in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell the people, in accordance with everything that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people hurried and crossed [the dry riverbed]; ¹¹and when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of the LORD and the priests crossed over in the presence of the people. ¹²The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed for battle before the [other] sons of Israel, just as Moses had spoken to them; ¹³about 40,000 [men] armed and equipped for war crossed for battle before the LORD to the desert plains of Jericho. ¹⁴On that day the LORD magnified and exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; so they feared him [with profound awe and reverence], just as they had feared Moses all the days of his life. ¹⁵Now the LORD said to Joshua,¹⁶"Order the priests carrying the ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan." ¹⁷So Joshua commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of the Jordan." ¹⁸When the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of their feet were raised up to the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks as before. ¹⁹Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month and encamped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

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Cross-References

Genesis 4:24
"If Cain is avenged sevenfold [as the LORD said he would be], Then Lamech [will be avenged] seventy-sevenfold."

Leviticus 26:18
'If in spite of all this you still will not listen to Me and be obedient, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.

Leviticus 26:21
'If then, you act with hostility toward Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven times in accordance with your sins.

Leviticus 26:24
then I also will act with hostility against you, and I will strike you seven times for your sins.

Leviticus 26:28
then I will act with hostility against you in wrath, and I also will punish you seven times for your sins.

1 Kings 16:7
Moreover, the word of the LORD came against Baasha and his household through the prophet Jehu the son of Hanani, both for all the evil that Baasha did in the sight of the LORD in provoking Him to anger with the work of his hands (idolatry), in being like the house of Jeroboam, and because he [willingly] destroyed it (the family of Jeroboam).

Psalms 59:11
Do not kill them, or my people will forget; Scatter them and make them wander [endlessly] back and forth by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield!

Psalms 79:12
And return into the lap of our neighbors sevenfold The taunts with which they have taunted You, O Lord.

Proverbs 6:31
But when he is found, he must repay seven times [what he stole]; He must give all the property of his house [if necessary to meet his fine].

Ezekiel 9:4
The LORD said to him, "Go through the midst of the city, throughout all of Jerusalem, and put a mark on the foreheads of the men who sigh [in distress] and grieve over all the repulsive acts which are being committed in it."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord spake unto Joshua,.... When all the people had passed over jordan:

saying; as follows.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The passage of the priests to the further bank had been already referred to, Joshua 4:11; but the writer, in observance of his general plan (compare introductory remarks to Joshua 3:0), re-introduces it here as the leading feature in the concluding section of his account, and (as before) with mention of God’s special direction about it. The statement that on the removal of the ark the waters of Jordan at once returned to their former level Joshua 4:18, heightens the impression which is especially inculcated throughout - that the whole transaction was extraordinary and miraculous. The details and incidents of the passage are no doubt open to manifold discussion: but all such discussion will be futile unless it proceed throughout on the admission that we have here before us the record of a distinctly supernatural interposition: compare the introduction to the Book of Joshua.