Joshua 3:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

Then the waters flowing down from higher up were stopped and came together in a mass a long way back at Adam, a town near Zarethan; and the waters flowing down to the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were cut off: and the people went across opposite Jericho.

Cross References

Genesis 14:3

All these came together in the valley of Siddim which is the Salt Sea.

1 Kings 4:12

Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;

1 Kings 7:46

He made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, at the way across the river, at Adama, between Succoth and Zarethan.

Psalm 114:3

The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back.

Psalm 114:5

What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?

Psalm 29:10

The Lord had his seat as king when the waters came on the earth; the Lord is seated as king for ever.

Psalm 33:7

He makes the waters of the sea come together in a mass; he keeps the deep seas in store-houses.

Psalm 66:6

The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.

Psalm 74:15

You made valleys for fountains and springs; you made the ever-flowing rivers dry.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps.

Psalm 78:13

The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that.

Exodus 14:21

And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land.

Exodus 14:22

And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

Exodus 14:29

But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.

Exodus 15:8

By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.

Isaiah 50:2

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.

Ezekiel 47:8

And he said to me, These waters are flowing out to the east part of the land and down into the Arabah; and they will go to the sea, and the waters will be made sweet.

Nahum 1:4

He says sharp words to the sea and makes it dry, drying up all the rivers: Bashan is feeble, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon is without strength.

Habakkuk 3:8

Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?

Numbers 34:3

Then your south quarter will be from the waste land of Zin by the side of Edom, and your limit on the south will be from the east end of the Salt Sea,

Deuteronomy 1:1

These are the words which Moses said to all Israel on the far side of Jordan, in the waste land in the Arabah opposite Suph, between Paran on the one side, and Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab on the other.

Deuteronomy 3:17

As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

Joshua 12:3

And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east, and to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah:

Joshua 15:2

Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south:

Joshua 16:7

And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan.

Joshua 3:13

And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.

Joshua 4:22

Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.

Joshua 5:1

Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

Judges 7:22

And the three hundred gave a loud note on their horns, and every man's sword was turned by the Lord against his brother all through the army; and the army went in flight as far as Beth-shittah in the direction of Zeredah, to the edge of Abel-meholah by Tabbath.