Joshua 3:16

God's Word

the water, the water stopped flowing from upstream. The water rose up like a dam as far away as the city of Adam near Zarethan. The water flowing down toward the Sea of the Plains (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off. Then the people crossed from the east side ⌞of the Jordan River⌟ directly opposite Jericho.

Cross References

Genesis 14:3

The five kings joined forces and met in the valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea).

1 Kings 4:12

Baana, son of Ahilud, had Taanach, Megiddo, and all of Beth Shean. (This was near Zarethan, below Jezreel, from Beth Shean to Abel Meholah and over to Jokmeam.)

1 Kings 7:46

The king cast them in foundries in the Jordan Valley between Succoth and Zarethan.

Psalm 114:3

The Red Sea looked at this and ran away. The Jordan River turned back.

Psalm 114:5

Red Sea, why did you run away? Jordan River, what made you turn back?

Psalm 29:10

The Lord sat enthroned over the flood. The Lord sits enthroned as king forever.

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the water in the sea like a dam and puts the oceans in his storehouses.

Psalm 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land. They crossed the river on foot. We rejoiced because of what he did there.

Psalm 74:15

You opened the springs and brooks. You dried up the ever-flowing rivers.

Psalm 77:19

Your road went through the sea. Your path went through raging water, but your footprints could not be seen.

Psalm 78:13

He divided the sea and led them through it. He made the waters stand up like a wall.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea. All that night the Lord pushed back the sea with a strong east wind and turned the sea into dry ground. The water divided,

Exodus 14:22

and the Israelites went through the middle of the sea on dry ground. The water stood like a wall on their right and on their left.

Exodus 14:29

Meanwhile, the Israelites had gone through the sea on dry ground while the water stood like a wall on their right and on their left.

Exodus 15:8

With a blast from your nostrils, the water piled up. The waves stood up like a dam. The deep water thickened in the middle of the sea.

Isaiah 50:2

Why was no one here when I came? Why was no one here to answer when I called? Am I too weak to reclaim you? Don’t I have the power to rescue you? I dry up the sea with my command, and I turn rivers into deserts. Their fish stink because there is no water, and people die of thirst.

Ezekiel 47:8

Then the man said to me, “This water flows through the land to the east, down into the Jordan Valley, and into the Dead Sea. When the water flows into the Dead Sea, it will replace the salt water there with fresh water.

Nahum 1:4

He yells at the sea and makes it dry. He dries up all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither. The flowers of Lebanon wither.

Habakkuk 3:8

The Lord is not angry with the rivers, is he? If you are angry with the rivers, if you are furious with the sea, ⌞why⌟ do you ride your horses, your chariots of salvation?

Numbers 34:3

“The southern side includes part of the Desert of Zin along the border of Edom. In the east the southern border starts from the end of the Dead Sea

Deuteronomy 1:1

This is the speech Moses gave in the desert east of the Jordan River, on the plains, near Suph, between Paran and Tophel, and near Laban, Hazeroth, and Di Zahab. He spoke to all the Israelites.

Deuteronomy 3:17

Their land included the plains around the Jordan River. The western border was the river, from the Sea of Galilee to the Sea of the Plains (the Dead Sea), which is near Mount Pisgah on the east.

Joshua 12:3

It included the eastern plains from the Sea of Galilee to the Sea of the Plains (the Dead Sea) and the road that goes south from Beth Jeshimoth to the foot of the slopes of Pisgah.

Joshua 15:2

The southern border starts from the south end of the Dead Sea

Joshua 16:7

From Janoah it descends to Ataroth and Naarah, touches Jericho, and ends at the Jordan River.

Joshua 3:13

The priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of the whole earth, will stand in the water of the Jordan. Then the water flowing from upstream will stop and stand up like a dam.”

Joshua 4:22

the children should be told that Israel crossed the Jordan River on dry ground.

Joshua 5:1

All the Amorite kings west of the Jordan River and all the Canaanite kings along the Mediterranean Sea heard that the Lord had dried up the Jordan River so that the Israelites could cross. So they lost heart and had no courage left to face the people of Israel.

Judges 7:22

The 300 men kept on blowing their rams’ horns, and the Lord caused the whole camp of Midian to fight among themselves. They fled as far as Beth Shittah, toward Zererah, and as far as the bank of the stream at Abel Meholah near Tabbath.