Inspire: Joshua, Judges & Ruth 978-1-4964-7519-0 - Flipbook - Page 13
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When the
people heard
the sound of
the rams’
God created
the heavens
15 The Lord had said to Joshua, 16 “Command the priests carrying the Ark of the
Covenant to come up out of the riverbed.” 17 So Joshua gave the command. 18 As
soon as the priests carrying the Ark of the Lord’s Covenant came up out of the
riverbed and their feet were on high ground, the water of the Jordan returned
and overflowed its banks as before.
19 The people crossed the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month. Then they
camped at Gilgal, just east of Jericho. 20 It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up
the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future your children will ask, ‘What
do these stones mean?’ 22 Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites
crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ 23 For the Lord your God dried up the river
right before your eyes, and he kept it dry until you were all across, just as he did
at the Red Sea when he dried it up until we had all crossed over.
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He did this so all the nations of the earth
might know that the LORD’s hand
horns,
they shouted
as loud as
is powerful,and so you might fear
the LORD your God forever.”
they could.
Suddenly,
the walls
of Jericho
collapsed,
and the
Israelites
charged
straight into
the town and
captured it.
God created the heavens
Jos hua 6:20
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When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings
who lived along the Mediterranean coast heard how the Lord had dried
up the Jordan River so the people of Israel could cross, they lost heart and
were paralyzed with fear because of them.
Israel Reestablishes Covenant Ceremonies
2 At that time the Lord told Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise this second
generation of Israelites.” 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire
male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
4 Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to
fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness. 5 Those who left
Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, during
the years in the wilderness, had been circumcised. 6 The Israelites had traveled in
the wilderness for forty years until all the men who were old enough to fight in
battle when they left Egypt had died. For they had disobeyed the Lord, and the
Lord vowed he would not let them enter the land he had sworn to give us—a land
flowing with milk and honey. 7 So Joshua circumcised their sons—those who had
grown up to take their fathers’ places—for they had not been circumcised on the
way to the Promised Land. 8 After all the males had been circumcised, they rested
in the camp until they were healed.
Then the LORD said to Joshua,
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“Today I have rolled away
the shame of your slavery in Egypt.”
