Josue — Chapter 2
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Verse 2
Which being pafled , the heraulds went through the middes ot the campe, 3. and be- gan to preclaime : (4) When you thal fee the arke ot couenant ot our Lord your God, \ and{!} che Priefts of the Leuitical ftock ca- tying it,ryfe you alfo,& folow them going before: 4.& let there be be- tween you & the arke the {pace of two thouland cubits: that you may fee it a farre off, & know which way you may goe - becaufe you haue not walked by it before:& beware you approach not to the arke.s.And lofue faid tothe people : Be fanctified , for to morrow our Lord wil doe among you meruelous things.6.And he {aid co the Priefts : Take vp the mandments,tookeit,and walked before them, 7,And our Lord faidto lofue : This day wil I begia to exalt thee before al Ifrael : (¢) thet they may know as I was with Moyfes, fo am I with thee alfo. 8. And doe thou” command the Priefts, that carte the arke of che tettamenr, and fay to them : When you thal be entred into part of the water of Iordan, ftand in it. 9. AcdIofuc faid to the children of Iftael ; Come hither,and hearethe word of our Lord your God. to, And againe he faid : Inthis you fhal know that our Lord the liuing God is in the middes of you, and thal defttoy in your fight the Chananeite and Hetheite,the Heueite and Pherezeite , the Gergefeite alfo and the Iebufeice, and the Amorrhcite, 11.Behoid the arke of the couenant of the Lord of al the eartia thal goe before you into lordan.12.Prepare twelue mé of the tribes of Ifracl,one of enerie tribe, 13. And when the Priefts thatcarie the arke of the Lord of the whole earth thal fetthe fteps of their feet in the waters of Iordan, the waters that are beneath fhal run downe and decay : and thofe tinat come from aboue, fhal ftand together in one heap. ‘14. Thertore the ople went out of their tabernacles to paffe ouer Jordan : andthe Priefts chat caried the arke of the couenance, went on betore them,
Verse 15
And --- PAGE 445 --- E od. 4.) 5.6. PC, Dews.17.: IOSVE., 47 ry. And they being entered into Iordan , and their feer dipped in part of the water ( and Tordan in the harueft time had filled the bankes of his chanel ) 16, the waters that came downeward ftood in one place, and like a mountaine {welling vp appeared farre from the citie, that is called Adom,to the place of Sarthan:but thofe that were beneath ranne downe into the Sea of the wildernes ( which now is called the dead fea) vatil they wholy dacayed.17. And the people went againftlericho: and rhe Prieitsthac caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord, ftood girded vpon the drie ground in the middes of lordan , and al the people paffed ouer through the drie chanel, into Iericho.