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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:14

Removed from their tents. The word used for "removed" in this chapter is the same as is used of Abraham's removing. It is appropriate to the nature of the removal, for it signifies originally to pull up stakes or tent-pins, and has reference, there. fore, to the removal of a people who dwelt in tents. read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:14-17

The division of the waters. The passage of Jordan, like that of the Red Sea, marks a momentous crisis in the career of the chosen people. The events are similar in their general character as Divine interpositions, but there are notable points of difference. In the first case there was haste, confusion, and alarm; the people fled precipitately, the noise of the Egyptian host behind them, the mountains shutting them in, the sea an object of terror before them; they cried unto the Lord, in... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:15

Brim. The water's edge is meant here, as in Joshua 3:8 , where the same word is translated brink (see note on Joshua 3:17 , and on Joshua 4:19 ). Jordan overfloweth all his banks. Some commentators translate here, filleth all his banks ( ἐπληροῦτο , LXX ). But this rendering is contrary The literal rendering here is, "filleth out (or upon ) all its banks." In Joshua 4:18 we read that Jordan goeth over all its banks And that the Jordan is not merely full, but... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:16

Stood and rose up upon a heap. Literally, "stood—they rose up, one heap." The narrative assumes a poetic form here (cf. Exodus 15:8 , Exodus 15:9 ; 5:27 ). Very far from the city Adam. The Masorites have corrected the text here. The original text has בְאָדָם for which the suggested Keri is מֵאָדָס . But the correction is needless. It is better to render, "they rose up, one heap, very far off, at the city Adam." The city Adam is nowhere else mentioned in Scripture, The LXX .... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:17

Firm . The LXX . does not translate this. The Vulgate renders accincti. The original, literally translated, means to cause to stand upright. In the midst of Jordan. That is, they stood surrounded by water, but not in midstream, which would be expressed by בְּקֶרֶב as in Joshua 3:10 , where our version has "among" (see note on Joshua 4:9 ). So Drusius: "In medio Jordanis; i.e; intra Jordanem. Sic Tyrus legitur sita in corde maris; i.e; intra mare nam non procul abest a... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:15

Jordan overfloweth all his banks - Rather “is full up to all his banks,” i. e. “brim-full.” This remark strikingly illustrates the suddenness and completeness, not less than the greatness, of the marvel. The Jordan River flows at the bottom of a deep valley, which descends to the water’s edge on either side in two, occasionally in three, terraces. Within the lowest of these the stream, ordinarily less than 100 feet wide in this lower part of its course, is confined. The margin is overgrown with... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:16

The passage should run “rose up, an heap far away, by Adam, the city which is beside Zarthan.”The city of Adam is not named elsewhere, and Zarthan (mentioned here and in marginal references.) has also disappeared. It is, however, probably connected with the modern Kurn Sartabeh (Horn of Sartabeh), the name given to a lofty and isolated hill some 17 miles on the river above Jericho. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:17

The miraculous passage to the holy land through Jordan is not less pregnant with typical meaning than that through the Red Sea (compare 1 Corinthians 10:1-2). The solemn inauguration of Joshua to his office, and his miraculous attestation, by the same waters with which Jesus was baptized on entering on the public exercise of His ministry (compare Matthew 3:16-17); the choice of twelve men, one from each tribe to be the bearers of the twelve stones, and the builders of the monument erected... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 3:15

Joshua 3:15. The feet of the priests were dipped in the brim of the water The stream stopped immediately, as if a sluice had been let down to dam it up; so that the waters above swelled, stood on a heap, and ran back, and yet, it seems, did not spread themselves over the adjacent lands. When they passed through the Red sea, the waters were a wall on either hand; here only on the right hand. Thus the God of nature, when he pleaseth, can change the course of nature, and alter any of its... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 3:16

Joshua 3:16. Adam The city of Adam, being more obscure, is described by its nearness to a more known place, then eminent, but now unknown. The meaning is, that the waters were stopped in their course at that place, and so kept at a distance from the Israelites while they passed over. Against Jericho Here God carried them over, because this part was, 1st, The strongest, as having in its neighbourhood an eminent city, a potent king, and a stout and warlike people. 2d, The most pleasant and... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:14

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:14-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:15

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:16

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:17

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:15

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:17

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 3:15

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 3:16

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