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G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 3:1-17

The first movement in the actual advance of the people into the land was of such a nature as to impress them with e truth of their positive relation to God. There was nothing in this first advance calculated to give them any cause for personal glorying. They came on to the actual soil of Canaan not by deflecting the course of the intervening river nor by bridging it, but by direct divine intervention. Divine power arrested the rushing river and made a highway for them to the other side. The... read more

Robert Neighbour

Wells of Living Water Commentary - Joshua 3:1-17

Crossing the Jordan Joshua 3:1-17 INTRODUCTORY WORDS We wish to discuss the preparatory steps to the crossing of the Jordan. These steps are set forth in the opening verses of our chapter. 1. Lodging near the river Jordan. Before they could go across they had to come down by the riverside. However, as we see the Children of Israel camped by Jordan we can but remember that "near," or "by," is not enough. The fathers or elders of Israel had, of old, camped at Kadesh-barnea, just at the borders... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 3:14-16

Joshua 3:14-16 a ‘And so it was that when the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan, the priests bearing the Ark of the covenant being before the people, and when those who bore the ark were come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the Ark were dipped in the brink of the water, for Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest, that the waters which came down from above stood. They rose up in one heap a great way off at Adam, the city which is beside Zarethan,... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 3:1-17

Joshua 3:1 to Joshua 5:1 . The Crossing of Jordan.— Here we begin to meet with more serious difficulties. The old tradition was that after the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, they commemorated the event by the erection of twelve stones. But this simple narrative existed in two recensions, which differed as to the destination of these memorial stones. According to one account, they were to be placed in the midst of the river; according to the other, they were to be set up on the W. side of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 3:16

The waters rose up upon an heap; which having been affirmed by heathen writers to have been done by magicians, it is great impudence to disbelieve or doubt of God’s power to do it. Adam, that is beside Zaretan: the city Adam being more obscure, is described by its nearness to a more known place, Zaretan, or Zarthan, which some think is the same place mentioned 1 Kings 4:12; 1 Kings 7:46; but it rather seems to have been another place then eminent, but now unknown, as many thousands are. The... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 3:14-17

CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 3:15. Jordan overfloweth] Owing to the melting of the snow on the Lebanon and Anti-Lebanon mountains. “The swellings of Jordan” seems to have driven the wild beasts from their usual lairs (cf. Jeremiah 49:19). Joshua 3:16. The City Adam] The site is unknown; probably it was several miles to the north; the back-flow of the accumulated waters was apparent as far up the river as this city. Joshua 3:17. All the people] All excepting the women and children of the two and a... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 3:1-17

Chapter 3As we get into chapter three,Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and they came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and they lodged there before they passed over. And they commanded the people, and he said, Now when you see the ark of the covenant moving out, you stay behind it two thousand cubits: [Which is about a half mile that they were to stay behind the ark, maybe two-thirds of a mile back from the ark of the covenant.] and the Levites... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 3:1-17

Joshua 3:5 . Sanctify yourselves, by washings and purifications. The Persians, when commissioned to march against Babylon, are called God’s sanctified ones; for the ministers of his vengeance are holy. Isaiah 13:3. Joshua 3:13 . The waters of Jordan. The river near the place where the Israelites passed was a rapid stream; its depth is from five to six feet, and its breadth about twenty yards. But by overflowing its banks it has worked an outward bank at the distance of two hundred and... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 3:14-17

Joshua 3:14-17The priests . . . before the people.Ministers as leaders of the peopleIt is not always that either priests or Christian ministers have set the example of going before in any hazardous undertaking. They have not always moved so steadily in the van of great movements, nor stood so firmly in the midst of the river. What shall we say of those whose idea, whether of Hebrew priesthood or of Christian ministry, has been that of a mere office, that of men ordained to perform certain... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 3:16

Jos 3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho. Ver. 16. That is beside Zaretan. ] A city in the tribe of Ephraim, 1 Kings 4:12 ; 1Ki 7:46 called also Zererath in Judges 7:22 , and Zereda in 1 Kings 11:26 . Failed, and were cut off. ] Quickly... read more