Crossing the Jordan
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At the divine command the priests advanced to the middle of the channel and stood there while the entire host descended and crossed to the farther side.
Thus was impressed upon the minds of all Israel the fact that the power that stayed the waters of Jordan was the same that had opened the Red Sea to their fathers forty years before.
When the people had all passed over, the ark itself was borne to the western shore. No sooner had it reached a place of security, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, than the imprisoned waters, being set free, rushed down...Coming generations were not to be without a witness to this great miracle. While the priests bearing the ark were still in the midst of Jordan, twelve men previously chosen, one from each tribe, took up each a stone from the river bed where the priests were standing, and carried it over to the western side. These stones were to be set up as a monument in the first camping place beyond the river. The people were bidden to repeat to their children and children's children the story of the deliverance that God had wrought for them, as Joshua said, That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God forever. Joshua 4:24
