Joshua 3:8 Cross References - Rotherham

⁸ Thou, therefore, shalt command the priests who am bearing the ark of the covenant, saying,––When ye are come as far as the edge of the waters of the Jordan, in the Jordan, shall ye stand.

¹³ And Moses said unto the people––Do not fear, stand still, and see the salvation of Yahweh, which he will work for you today,––for, as for the Egyptians whom ye have seen today, ye shall not again see them any more, to times age–abiding.

³ and commanded the people saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, and, the priests the Levites, bearing it, ye also, shall break up out of your place, and come after it.

¹⁷ And the priests who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, stood on dry ground, in the midst of the Jordan, with firm footing,––while all Israel were passing over on dry ground, until all the nation had made an end of passing over the Jordan.

¹¹ Then called David, for Zadok and for Abiathar, the priests,––and for the Levites, for Uriel, Asaiah and Joel, Shemaiah and Eliel, and Amminadab; ¹² and said unto them, Ye, are the chiefs of the fathers of the Levites,––Hallow yourselves, ye and your brethren, so shall ye bring up the ark of Yahweh––God of Israel, into [the place] I have prepared for it.

⁸ and, with them, Levites, Shemaiah and Nethaniah and Zebadiah and Asahel and Shemiramoth and Jehonathan, and Adonijah and Tobijah and Tob–adonijah, Levites,––and, with them, Elishama and Jehoram, priests; ⁹ and they taught throughout Judah, and, with them, was the book of the law of Yahweh,––so they went round throughout all the cities of Judah, and taught the people.

⁴ And he brought in the priests, and the Levites,––and gathered them together in the broadway on the east; ⁵ and said unto them, Hear me, O Levites! Now, hallow yourselves, and hallow the house of Yahweh, God of your fathers, and take forth the impure thing out of the holy place. ⁶ For our fathers have acted unfaithfully and done the thing that was wicked in the eyes of Yahweh our God, and have forsaken him,–and have turned round their faces from the habitation of Yahweh, and have offered their backs. ⁷ Moreover they have shut up the doors of the porch, and have quenched the lamps, and, incense, have they not burned,–and, ascending–sacrifice, have they not caused to go up in the holy place, unto the God of Israel. ⁸ Thus hath it come to pass, that, the wrath of Yahweh, hath been upon Judah and Jerusalem,––and he hath delivered them up as a terror and as an astonishment and as hissing, even as, ye, can see with your own eyes. ⁹ And lo! our fathers have fallen by the sword, and, our sons and our daughters and our wives, are in captivity for this. ¹⁰ Now, is it near my heart, to solemnise a covenant unto Yahweh, God of Israel,––that he may turn from him the glow of his anger. ¹¹ My sons! now, do not be faulty,––for, of you, hath Yahweh made choice, to stand before him, and to wait upon him, and to be his attendants and burners of incense.

¹⁵ and they gathered together their brethren, who hallowed themselves, and came in according to the command of the king, in the things of Yahweh,––to purify the house of Yahweh.

²⁷ And Hezekiah gave word, to cause the ascending–sacrifice to go up on the altar,––and, when the ascending–sacrifice began, the singing unto Yahweh began, and the trumpets, even under the direction of the instruments of David, king of Israel.

³⁰ And Hezekiah the king and the rulers gave word to the Levites, to offer praise unto Yahweh, in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer,––so they offered praise right joyfully, and bent their heads and bowed themselves in prostration.

¹² Also, upon Judah, came the hand of God, to give them one heart,––to keep the commandment of the king and the rulers, as the word of Yahweh.

⁹ Then applied Hezekiah unto the priests and the Levites, concerning the heaps. ¹⁰ And Azariah, the chief priest of the house of Zadok, spake unto him,––and said––From the time of beginning to bring in, the heave–offering, into the house of Yahweh––to eat and to be full, there hath still been left, even to this abundance. For, Yahweh, hath blessed his people, and, that which is left, is this great plenty.

² And he set the priests over their charges,––and encouraged them unto the service of the house of Yahweh; ³ and said to the Levites who gave instruction to all Israel as to the things which were hallowed unto Yahweh, Put the holy ark in the house which Solomon son of David king of Israel did build, it is not yours as a burden on the shoulder,––Now, serve ye Yahweh your God, and his people Israel; ⁴ and prepare yourselves by your ancestral houses, according to your courses,––by the writing of David king of Israel, and by what hath been written by Solomon his son; ⁵ and stand ye in the holy place, by the divisions of the ancestral house, for your brethren, the sons of the people, and the partitioning of an ancestral house, for the Levites. ⁶ So slaughter ye the passover,––and hallow yourselves, and prepare for your brethren, that they may do according to the word of Yahweh, by the hand of Moses.

²⁴ And, the chiefs of the Levites, Hashabiah, Sherebiah, and Jeshua son of Kadmiel, with their brethren over against them, to praise––to give thanks, by the commandment of David the man of God,––ward joined to ward. ²⁵ Mattaniah and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were watchers, doorkeepers of the ward, in the storehouses of the gates. ²⁶ These, were in the days of Joiakim, son of Jeshua, son of Jozadak,––and in the days of Nehemiah the pasha, and Ezra the priest the scribe.
²⁷ And, at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought the Levites, out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem,––to keep the dedication and the rejoicing, both with thanksgiving and with music, cymbals, harps, and with lyres. ²⁸ So the sons of the singers gathered themselves together,––both out of the circuit round about Jerusalem, and out of the villages of the Netophathites;

²² And I gave word to the Levites, that they should be purifying themselves and coming in, as keepers of the gates, to hallow the sabbath day. This also, remember to me, O my God, and have pity upon me, according to the abundance of thy lovingkindness.

²⁸ And, one of the sons of Joiada, son of Eliashib the high priest, was son–in–law to Sanballat the Horonite,––therefore I chased him from me.

²⁶ Good it is––both to wait and to be silent, for the deliverance of Yahweh;