Teks -- Joshua 3:14 (NET)

3:14 So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went ahead of them.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

JFB: Jos 3:14-16 - And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, &c.

To understand the scene described we must imagine the band of priests with the ark on their shoulders, standing on the depressed edge of the river, while the mass of the people were at a mile's distance. Suddenly the whole bed of the river was dried up; a spectacle the more extraordinary in that it took place in the time of harvest, corresponding to our April or May--when "the Jordan overfloweth all its banks." The original words may be more properly rendered "fills all its banks." Its channel, snow-fed from Lebanon, was at its greatest height--brimful; a translation which gives the only true description of the state of Jordan in harvest as observed by modern travellers. The river about Jericho is, in ordinary appearance, about fifty or sixty yards in breadth. But as seen in harvest, it is twice as broad; and in ancient times, when the hills on the right and left were much more drenched with rain and snow than since the forests have disappeared, the river must, from a greater accession of water, have been broader still than at harvest-time in the present day.

TSK: Jos 3:14 - bearing the ark

bearing the ark : Jos 3:3, Jos 3:6, Jos 6:6; Deu 31:26; Jer 3:16; Act 7:44, Act 7:45; 1Co 1:24, 1Co 1:25; Heb 9:4

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Gill: Jos 3:14 - And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan // and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people

And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents to pass over Jordan,.... Which they had pitched very near it, upon their removal from Shittim, and in which they had lodged the night past:

and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; at the distance of two thousand cubits.