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Joshua 3:9

Then Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here. Listen to the words of the Lord your God."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Word of God;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Miracles;  

Dictionaries:

- Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joshua the son of nun;   Miracles;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Jericho;   Joshua;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jordan ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Ark;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Lachish;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then Joshua told the Israelites, “Come closer and listen to the words of the Lord your God.”
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua said to the children of Yisra'el, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
King James Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
And Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."
English Standard Version
And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God."
New Century Version
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!"
Amplified Bible
Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here, and listen to the words of the LORD your God."
New American Standard Bible
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the wordes of the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come near, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."
Contemporary English Version
Joshua spoke to the people: Come here and listen to what the Lord our God said he will do!
Complete Jewish Bible
Y'hoshua said to the people of Isra'el, "Come here, and listen to the words of Adonai your God."
Darby Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come and listen to the words of the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Then Joshua said to the people, "Come here and listen to what the Lord your God has to say.
Literal Translation
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Come near here and hear the Words of Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And Iosua sayde vnto the children of Israel: Come hither, & heare the worde of the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah saide vnto the children of Israel: Come hyther, and heare the wordes of the Lorde your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.'
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua said vnto the children of Israel, Come hither, and heare the words of the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hearken to the word of the Lord our God.
English Revised Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God."
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And Josue seide to the sones of Israel, Neiye ye hidur, and here ye the word of youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, `Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God;
Update Bible Version
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
World English Bible
Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
So Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
New Living Translation
So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come and listen to what the Lord your God says.
New Revised Standard
Joshua then said to the Israelites, "Draw near and hear the words of the Lord your God."
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then said Joshua, unto the sons of Israel, - Draw near hither, and hear ye the words of Yahweh your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear the word of the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
And Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God."
THE MESSAGE
Then Joshua addressed the People of Israel: "Attention! Listen to what God , your God, has to say. This is how you'll know that God is alive among you—he will completely dispossess before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites. Look at what's before you: the Chest of the Covenant. Think of it—the Master of the entire earth is crossing the Jordan as you watch. Now take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man from each tribe. When the soles of the feet of the priests carrying the Chest of God , Master of all the earth, touch the Jordan's water, the flow of water will be stopped—the water coming from upstream will pile up in a heap."
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."

Contextual Overview

7 The Lord said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to give you honor in the eyes of all Israel. Then they may know that I will be with you just as I have been with Moses. 8 Tell the religious leaders who are carrying the special box of the agreement, ‘When you come to the water of the Jordan River, stand still in it.'" 9 Then Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here. Listen to the words of the Lord your God." 10 And Joshua said, "You will know that the living God is among you because He will be sure to drive away from in front of you the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite, the Girgashite, the Amorite and the Jebusite. 11 See, the special box of the agreement of the Lord of All the earth is crossing over in front of you in the Jordan. 12 Now choose twelve men from the families of Israel, one man for each family. 13 The religious leaders who carry the special box of the agreement of the Lord of All the earth, will rest their feet in the water of the Jordan. Then the water of the Jordan will be cut off. The water flowing down from above will gather together in one place."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Hear the words: Deuteronomy 4:1, Deuteronomy 12:8

Cross-References

Genesis 3:12
The man said, "The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me fruit of the tree, and I ate."
Genesis 3:13
Then the Lord God said to the woman, "What is this you have done?" And the woman said, "The snake fooled me, and I ate."
Genesis 3:17
Then He said to Adam, "Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten from the tree of which I told you, "Do not eat from it," the ground is cursed because of you. By hard work you will eat food from it all the days of your life.
Genesis 3:19
You will eat bread by the sweat of your face because of hard work, until you return to the ground, because you were taken from the ground. You are dust, and you will return to dust."
Genesis 3:20
The man called his wife's name Eve, because she was the mother of all living.
Genesis 3:21
And the Lord God made clothes of skins for Adam and his wife, and dressed them.
Genesis 4:9
Then the Lord said to Cain, "Where is Abel your brother?" And he said, "I do not know. Am I my brother's keeper?"
Genesis 11:5
Then the Lord came down to see the city and the tower that the sons of men had built.
Genesis 16:8
He said, "Hagar, you who serve Sarai, where have you come from and where are you going?" And she said, "I am running away from Sarai, the one I serve."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, come hither,.... Very probably to the door of the tabernacle:

and hear the words of the Lord your God; which he was about to deliver to them as from him, and in his name.


 
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