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Joshua 3:16

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge · Canne, Browne, Blayney, Scott, and others · Public Domain

rose up: Joshua 3:13; Psalms 29:10, Psalms 77:19, Psalms 114:3; Matthew 8:26-27, Matthew 14:24-33

Zaretan: 1 Kings 4:12, Zartanah, 1 Kings 7:46, Zarthan

the salt sea: Joshua 15:2; Genesis 14:3; Numbers 34:3; Deuteronomy 3:17; The passage through the Red Sea took place in the night, when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians with great trepidation, but they passed Jordan in the day-time, with previous warning, leisurely, directly opposite to Jericho, and with a triumphant defiance of the Canaanites; this passage into the promised land evidently typifying the believer's passage through death to heaven.

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