Conclusion of Crossing the Jordan River

The priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant go right out into the middle of the dry river.  Can you imagine them in the river. As they stand there, all the Israelites walk across the Jordan River on dry land!

When everyone has dong across, Jehovah has Joshua tell 12 strong men: 'Go into the river where the priests are standing with the ark of the covenant. Pick up 12 stones, and stack them where you all stay tonight.  Then, in the future, when your children ask what these stones mean, you should tell them that the waters stopped  running when Jehovah's ark of the covenant crossed the Jordan.  The stones will remind you  of this miracle!'  Joshua also sets  up 12 stones where the priests had stood in the riverbed.

At last Joshua tells the priests carrying the ark of the covenant:  'Go up out of the Jordan.' And as soon as they do, the river begins running once more.

Joshua 3:1-17; 4:1-18.

Next time: The Walls of Jericho

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