FIRST STEP

Created by Sherry Long

"Digging a Well Ministries"

Photo by Kay Rowe

 

 

Joshua 3:1-15

 Yet there shall be a space between you and it,

about two thousand cubits by measure:

come not near unto it, that ye may know

the way by which ye must go:

for ye have not passed this way heretofore.
And Joshua said unto the people,

Sanctify yourselves:

for to morrow the LORD will

do wonders among you.
And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying,

Take up the ark of the covenant,

and pass over before the people.

And they took up the ark of the covenant,

and went before the people.
And the LORD said unto Joshua,

This day will I begin to magnify thee

in the sight of all Israel,

that they may know that,

as I was with Moses,

so I will be with thee.
And thou shalt command the priests

that bear the ark of the covenant, saying,

When ye are come to the brink

of the water of Jordan,

ye shall stand still in Jordan.
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel,

Come hither, and hear the words

of the LORD your God.
And Joshua said,
Hereby ye shall know that the
living God is among you,
and that he will without fail drive
out from before you the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Hivites,
and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites,
and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
 Behold, the ark of the covenant
of the Lord of all the earth
passeth over before you into Jordan.
 Now therefore take you twelve men
out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
And it shall come to pass,
as soon as the soles of the feet
of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD,
the Lord of all the earth,
shall rest in the waters of Jordan,
that the waters of Jordan shall be cut
off from the waters that come down from above;
and they shall stand upon an heap.
And it came to pass,
when the people removed from their tents,
 to pass over Jordan,
and the priests bearing the ark
of the covenant before the people;
And as they that bare the ark were
come unto Jordan,
and the feet of the priests that bare the ark
were dipped in the brim of the water,
(for Jordan overfloweth
all his banks all the time of harvest,)