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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:3

At this decisive moment, when the people of Israel were about to enter on the great conflict which was to secure the possession of the land of promise, the command was given to gather themselves together around the ark of the covenant, as their banner. This indicates the great central truth of the history of Israel. The focus of its national life is the law of its God. It is for this it is to fight and overcome, and not merely that it may gain possession of a rich country and develop its... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:4

There shall be a space between you and it. Perhaps in order that they might keep it in view. This agrees best with the remainder of the verse, "that ye may know the way by which ye must go." Keil remarks that, had the Israelites pressed close on the heels of the priests who bore the ark, this would have defeated the very object with which the ark was carried before the people, namely, to point them out the way that they should go. But Cornelius Lapide among the earlier commentators and... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:5

Sanctify yourselves. The Hithpahel, which is used here, is frequently used of ceremonial purification, as in Exodus 19:22 ; 1 Chronicles 15:12 , 1 Chronicles 15:14 ; 2 Chronicles 5:11 ; and especially 2 Samuel 11:4 . It is also connected with purification, but ironically, in Isaiah 66:17 . Tomorrow. These words were uttered while all was in preparation. We learn from Isaiah 66:7 , though it is not expressly stated, that the actual crossing took place the next day. We ought,... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:5

Preparation for beholding displays of Divine power. With what longing eyes must the Israelites have looked upon the river which they were soon to cross. Hope had been deferred for years. The promised land, fertile and beautiful, seemed to disappear from their sight, as did the fruit and water from the eager hands and parched lips of Tantalus. Could it, then, be really true that on the morrow the boundary line would separate them from their inheritance no more? By the Jordan the Israelites... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:5

God's wonders. "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you. These words admirably express the conditions of all blessing for the people of God. Those conditions are at once Divine and human. The Divine is the essential; the human can only be realised through it. I. GOD WILL DO WONDERS . This is a true description of all God's works of deliverance, and primarily of His great miracle of pardon. For, of all the marvellous things which He does, the most... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:6

And Joshua spake. We return now to the ordinary course of the narrative. To the priests. This was because the occasion was an extraordinary one. On ordinary occasions this was the duty of the Kohathites ( Numbers 4:15 ). And went before the people. The people were to "follow the priests as far as they carried the ark, but no further; so we must follow our ministers only as they follow Christ" (Matthew Henry). HOMILETICS read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:7

EXPOSITION THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN — This day will I begin to magnify thee. " Neque enim ante mysterium baptismi exal-tatur Jesus, sed exaltatio ejus, et exaltatio in conspectu pepuli, inde sunlit exordium " (Orig; Hem. 4 on Joshua. Cf. Matthew 3:17 ; Luke 3:22 ). read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:7-17

The passage of Jordan. I. THE MINISTRY OF JOSHUA AND JESUS BEGAN AT JORDAN . As with Joshua at his crossing, so with Jesus at His baptism, God marked the moment of their coming to Jordan with a special favour. For as the waters of the Red Sea ( 1 Corinthians 10:2 ), so the waters of Jordan are the type of Christian baptism. In connection with the wandering in the wilderness, the stream of Jordan is the type of death, which admits us to the promised land. But in... read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:8

And thou shalt command the priests . We have not here the whole command. That is to be found in Joshua 3:13 . To the brink עַד־קְצֵה . Literally, to the end, i.e; the end or brink of the waters at the eastern side. There they halted, and as long as the ark remained there, the waters of Jordan ceased to flow. read more

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The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:10

That the living God. Rather, perhaps, that a living God, i.e; that you hare not with you some idol of wood or stone, or some deified hero, long since passed out of your reach, but a living, working, ever present God, who shows by His acts that your faith in Him is not vain. The phrase is a very common one as applied to God in the Old Testament. In the New, Christ is frequently referred to as the source of life. Is among you. The original is stronger, in the midst of you. The... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:3

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:4

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:6

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:7

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:7-17

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:8

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 3:10

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