Text: (Joshua 3:9-17 ESV) And Joshua said to the people of Israel,“Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.” AndJoshua said, “Here is how you shall know that the living God is among youand that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites,the Hittites, the Hivites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Amorites, andthe Jebusites. Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all theearth is passing over before you into the Jordan. Nowtherefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribea man. And when the soles of the feet of the priests bearing the arkof the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters ofthe Jordan, the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from flowing, and thewaters coming down from above shall stand in one heap.” So when the peopleset out from their tents to pass over the Jordan with the priestsbearing the ark of the covenant before the people, and as soon asthose bearing the ark had come as far as the Jordan, and the feet of thepriests bearing the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (now theJordan overflows all its banks throughout the time of harvest), the waterscoming down from above stood and rose up in a heap very far away, at Adam, thecity that is beside Zarethan, and those flowing down toward the Seaof the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely cut off. And the peoplepassed over opposite Jericho. Now the priests bearing the arkof the covenant of the Lord stood firmly on dry ground in the midstof the Jordan, and all Israel was passing over on dry ground until all thenation finished passing over the Jordan.