The Bible In Paintings: ISRAEL CROSSES THE JORDAN RIVER

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The Bible In Paintings 2
ENCOURAGEMENT FOR APPRECIATING AND APPLYING GOD'S MESSAGE

J O S H U A
CHAPTERS 3 & 4

Joshua and all the Israelites went to the Jordan. Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.”

And the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the eyes of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you as I was with Moses.”

Now the Jordan is at flood stage all during harvest.

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Yet as soon as the priests who carried the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge, the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho. The priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground.

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"The Priests Precede the People in Crossing the River Jordan"

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JAMES TISSOT
"Crossing the Jordan"

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BENJAMIN WEST
"Joshua Passing the Jordan River with the Ark of the Covenant"

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GUSTAVE DORÉ
"The Children of Israel Crossing Jordan"

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"Joshua and Israel Crossing the Jordan River"

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"Crossing the Jordan"

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FRANS FRANCKEN the Younger
"The Israelites led by Joshua passing over the Jordan River
into the Land of Israel on the 10th of Nisan
while carrying the Ark of the Covenant"

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KAREL VAN MANDER
"The People's Passage Across the Jordan River"

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"The Priests Who Bore The Ark Stood in the Midst
of the Jordan until Everything Was Finished"

When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua, “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan.”

So Joshua called together the twelve men and said, “Go into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take up a stone on his shoulder, to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean?’, tell them that the flow of the Jordan was cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever.”

Joshua set up the twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.

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"Take for yourselves twelve stones from the Jordan"

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"The Israelite Priests Holding the Ark
in the Passage of the Jordan River"

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"Jordan River Memorial Stones"

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LORENZO GHIBERTI
"The Gates of Paradise—Jericho"
Click on the title, then click on the image for an AMAZING closeup!

That day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Command the priests carrying the ark of the Testimony to come up out of the Jordan.”

So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up out of the Jordan.”

And the priests came up out of the river carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD. No sooner had they set their feet on the dry ground than the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and ran at flood stage as before.

Joshua said to the Israelites, “The LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan just what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over. HE DID THIS SO THAT ALL THE PEOPLES OF THE EARTH MIGHT KNOW THAT THE HAND OF THE LORD IS POWERFUL AND SO THAT YOU MIGHT ALWAYS FEAR THE LORD YOUR GOD.”

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[Hebrews 11:6]

J O S H U A
RAHAB AND THE TWO SPIES
ISRAEL CROSSES THE JORDAN RIVER
ISRAEL MARCHES AROUND JERICHO
GOD FLATTENS JERICHO
THE SUN STANDS STILL!

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A passage I was not familiar with.

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One of the most peculiar in all of Scripture.

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Good Morning, Dan. :-)

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Happy Saturday to you, Mary-Lou!

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Is this the second miracle of parting the waters?
Tissot and Ghiberti, never tire of looking at their work.

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Yes, indeedy. Did you click on Ghiberti’s close-up?

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Yes, I did. Thank you!

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From The Art Story
Summary of Lorenzo Ghiberti

Ghiberti is credited (and was happy to credit himself) with creating one of the greatest masterpieces in fifteenth century Italian art, the east doors, known as the Gates of Paradise, for the Baptistery in Florence Cathedral. The Baptistery doors are considered the finest of all sculptural examples of the Late Gothic style in Italy. He produced many other influential works, such as three bronze statutes for Orsanmichele church, that saw him compared (favorably) with Donatello and Nanni di Banco, and the reliefs for the Siena Cathedral. In his late career, Ghiberti put his humanist ideals on perspective and classical form into writing too when he authored two influential volumes on art history, and art practice and theory, making him the first modern historian (predating Vasari by some 100 years) of fine arts. A third tome, an autobiography, is thought to be the first of its kind for any artist and secured them a status reserved previously only for rulers and saints.

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Nice variety, even found some art regarding the stones.

Tough to gauge from the scripture if Israel was kept about 2,000 cubits from the Ark before Passing Over, or where they Passed Over, was about 2000 cubits from where the Ark was in the river.

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even found some art regarding the stones

Just trying to illustrate the story....

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WWCP - What would Chagall Paint?

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Yep.

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Thank you for adding your text. Another important and earlier door is on the south side of the Baptistery, designed by Andrea Pisano.