Joshua 3:16

Modern English Version

Then the water that flows down from upstream stood still and rose up in a heap very far away at Adam, the city beside Zarethan. The water that flows down toward the Sea of Arabah (the Dead Sea) stopped and was cut off. The people crossed over opposite Jericho.

Cross References

Genesis 14:3

All these were joined together in the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Dead Sea).

1 Kings 4:12

Baana the son of Ahilud in Taanach, Megiddo, and all Beth-shan that is by Zarethan beneath Jezreel, and from Beth-shan to Abel Meholah as far as the other side of Jokmeam;

1 Kings 7:46

In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between Sukkoth and Zarethan.

Psalm 114:3

The sea looked and fled; Jordan turned back.

Psalm 114:5

What ails you, O sea, that you fled? O Jordan, that you turned back?

Psalm 29:10

The Lord sat enthroned over the flood; and the Lord sits as King forever.

Psalm 33:7

He gathers the waters of the sea together as a heap; He puts the deeps in storehouses.

Psalm 66:6

He turned the sea into dry land; they passed through the river on foot. There we will rejoice in Him.

Psalm 74:15

You split open springs and torrents; You dried up mighty rivers.

Psalm 77:19

Your way was through the sea, Your path through the great waters; yet Your footsteps were unseen.

Psalm 78:13

He divided the sea and caused them to pass through, and He made the waters stand up like a heap.

Exodus 14:21

Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the Lord caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, so that the waters were divided.

Exodus 14:22

The Israelites went into the midst of the sea on the dry ground, and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

Exodus 14:29

But the Israelites walked on dry land in the midst of the sea. And the waters were a wall to them on their right hand and on their left.

Exodus 15:8

With the blast of Your nostrils the waters were gathered together. The flowing waters stood upright as a heap; and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

Isaiah 50:2

Why, when I came, was there no man? When I called, was there no one to answer? Is My hand so short that it cannot redeem? Or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at My rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness; Their fish stink because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Ezekiel 47:8

Then he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the valley, and enters the sea. When it flows into the sea, the water will become fresh.

Nahum 1:4

He rebukes and dries up the sea, and He makes waterless all the rivers. Bashan and Carmel wither up, and the sprout of Lebanon wastes away.

Habakkuk 3:8

Were you displeased with the rivers, O  Lord? Was Your anger against the rivers, and was Your wrath against the sea when You rode on Your horses, on Your chariots of salvation?

Numbers 34:3

Then your south side will be from the Wilderness of Zin along by the border of Edom, and your south border will be the end of the Dead Sea to the east.

Deuteronomy 1:1

These are the words which Moses spoke to all Israel on the other side of the Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain opposite Suph, between Paran and Tophel and Laban and Hazeroth and Dizahab.

Deuteronomy 3:17

the plain also, with the Jordan as the border, from Kinnereth as far as the east side of the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the Dead Sea), below the slopes of Pisgah.

Joshua 12:3

and the Arabah to the Sea of Galilee eastward, and toward Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of Arabah, the Dead Sea, southward below the slopes of Pisgah;

Joshua 15:2

Their southern border runs from the southern tip of the Salt Sea,

Joshua 16:7

It descends from Janoah to Ataroth and to Naarah, touches Jericho, and extends to the Jordan.

Joshua 3:13

When the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, touch the water of the Jordan, the water of the Jordan that flows from upstream will be cut off and pile up.”

Joshua 4:22

then you shall explain to your children, ‘Israel crossed over the Jordan here on dry ground!’

Joshua 5:1

When all the kings of the Amorites west of the Jordan and of the Canaanites by the sea to the east heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites while they crossed over, their hearts melted, and there was no longer any breath in them because of the Israelites.

Judges 7:22

When they blew the three hundred horns, the Lord turned every man’s sword against his fellow man throughout the camp. The Midianite camp fled to Beth-shittah in the direction of Zererah, up to the border of Abel Meholah, near Tabbath.