Joshua 3 (KJV)
Joshua and the Children of Israel left Shittim for the Jordan River. The time had not come to cross the river, so they lodged. After three days, the officers among the people commanded, "When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it" (v.3). The people were to follow from a distance of about two thousand cubits so they would know the way to go.
Joshua had the people to sanctify themselves in preparation for the following day because the Lord was to do wonders among them.
Time came for Joshua to command the priests to take up the ark before the people. "And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee (v.7).
Joshua said to the people, "Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites" (v.10).
"Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan" (v.11). "And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above..." (v. 13)[.]
When the waters were cut off from above, dry ground was formed in the midst of the Jordan for all the people to pass over to the other side.
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