Joshua 3

Joshua 3:3

Ark] The Ark here leads the way before the hoast, into Iordan and Canaan; without any more mention of the Pillar of Cloud and Fire.

Joshua 3:4

Two thousand Cubits] The distance of two thousand Cubits from the Ark, Josh. III. 4. was on either side of it; and seemes to be the same distance that was kept from it, in their Campings or Pitchings, and in their Journeyings in the Wildernesse: And may well be deemed to be the Sabbath-dayes journey mentioned, Acts I. 12. Comparing together John XI. 18. and Luke XXIV. 50.

Joshua 3:16

Rose up upon an heap] When the Israelites passed through Jordan, the waters were not as a wall unto them, on the right hand, and on the left; as likely they were when Elias, and Elizeus divided them with a mantle, 2 King. II. 8, 14. And as certainly the waters of the redsea were, Exod. 14. 21, 22. But God stopped the waters of the river that came down from above, and they stood and rose upon an heap, very farre from the City Adam: And thereupon those waters that came down from Adam to the Salt and Dead Sea, and Lake of Sodom and Asphaltites, did run away, failed, were cut off.

Joshua 3:17

Midst] The often mentioning the midst of the river of Iordan to be the place where the Priests feet stood bearing the Ark of the Lord; the place where twelve stones were erected; and the place whence twelve stones were taken to be set up in Gilgal, Iosh. III. 17. and IV. 3, 5, 8, 9, 10, 18. doth induce me to take the word midst in its proper signification, having no maner of inconvenience in it for so doing, rather then to transferre it to the Channel close by the further side and banck.