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A Miracle Magnified
All the commentators emphasize that the Jordan River was at its flood stage, making it dangerously impassable. This detail is included to magnify the miracle. God's power was not just shown in parting a river, but in taming a raging, overflowing torrent at its most chaotic. This demonstrates that the crossing was supernaturally orchestrated and impossible by human means.
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Joshua
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Albert Barnes
On Joshua 3:15
18th Century
Theologian
Jordan overfloweth all his banks - Rather “is full up to all his banks,” that is, “brim-full.” This remark strikingly illustrates t…
John Calvin
On Joshua 3:15
16th Century
Theologian
And as they that bare the ark, etc. The valor of the priests in proceeding boldly beyond the riverbed into the water itself was deserving …
John Gill
On Joshua 3:15
17th Century
Pastor
And as they that bore the ark were come to Jordan Not to the bank, which was overflowed, but to the extremity of the wate…
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Matthew Henry
On Joshua 3:14–17
17th Century
Minister
Jordan overflowed all its banks. This magnified the power of God, and His kindness to Israel. Although those who oppose the salvation of God's peop…