Joshua 3:9
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New International Version (©2011)
Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.

New Living Translation (©2007)
So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come and listen to what the LORD your God says.

English Standard Version (©2001)
And Joshua said to the people of Israel, “Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Then Joshua said to the sons of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God."

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Then Joshua told the Israelites, "Come closer and listen to the words of the LORD your God."

International Standard Version (©2012)
So Joshua told the Israelis, "Come here and listen to what the LORD your God has to say."

NET Bible (©2006)
Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God!"

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
So Joshua said to the people of Israel, "Come here, and listen to the words of the LORD your God."

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

American King James Version
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

American Standard Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and hear the word of the Lord your God.

Darby Bible Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God.

English Revised Version
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.

World English Bible
Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, 'Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

3:7-13 The waters of Jordan shall be cut off. This must be done in such a way as never was done, but in the dividing of the Red sea. That miracle is here repeated; God has the same power to finish the salvation of his people, as to begin it; the WORD of the Lord was as truly with Joshua as with Moses. God's appearances for his people ought to encourage faith and hope. God's work is perfect, he will keep his people. Jordan's flood cannot keep out Israel, Canaan's force cannot turn them out again.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, come hither,.... Very probably to the door of the tabernacle:

and hear the words of the Lord your God; which he was about to deliver to them as from him, and in his name.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

Jos 3:9-13. Joshua Encourages the People.

9-13. Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord—It seems that the Israelites had no intimation how they were to cross the river till shortly before the event. The premonitory address of Joshua, taken in connection with the miraculous result exactly as he had described it, would tend to increase and confirm their faith in the God of their fathers as not a dull, senseless, inanimate thing like the idols of the nations, but a Being of life, power, and activity to defend them and work for them.

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The Crossing of the Jordan
…8And you shall command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan. 9And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD your God. 10And Joshua said, Hereby you 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. …

Joshua 3:8 Tell the priests who carry the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the Jordan's waters, go and stand in the river.'"
Joshua 3:10 This is how you will know that the living God is among you and that he will certainly drive out before you the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites and Jebusites.