Joshua 4:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over armed before the Israelites, as Moses had ordered them.

Cross References

Exodus 13:18

So God led the people by the roundabout way of the wilderness bordering the Red Sea. The Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt prepared for battle.

Numbers 1:24

The descendants of Gad, their lineage, in their clans, by their ancestral houses, according to the number of names, from twenty years old and up, everyone able to go to war:

Numbers 32:17

but we will take up arms as a vanguard before the Israelites, until we have brought them to their place. Meanwhile our little ones will stay in the fortified towns because of the inhabitants of the land.

Deuteronomy 3:18

“At that time, I charged you as follows: ‘Although the Lord your God has given you this land to occupy, all your troops shall cross over armed as the vanguard of your Israelite kin.

Deuteronomy 33:21

He chose the best for himself, for there a commander’s allotment was reserved; he came at the head of the people; he executed the justice of the Lord and his ordinances with Israel.”

Joshua 1:14

Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan. But all the warriors among you shall cross over armed before your kindred and shall help them,

Joshua 4:11

As soon as all the people had finished crossing over, the ark of the Lord and the priests crossed over to the front of the people.

Joshua 4:13

About forty thousand armed for war crossed over before the Lord to the plains of Jericho for battle.