Joshua 3:4
“Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed this way heretofore .”
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Gill's ExpositionBaptist theologian, 1697–1771
Yet there shall be a space between you and it,.... The ark; the Keri or marginal reading is, "between you and them"; the…
Barnes' NotesPresbyterian pastor, 1798–1870
The ark, which was since the making of the covenant the special shrine and seat of God’s presence, went before to show…
Adam ClarkeMethodist theologian, 1762–1832
About two thousand cubits - This distance they were to keep,
1. For the greater respect, because the presence of the ark…
Matthew HenryNonconformist minister, 1662–1714Joshua 3:1-6
Rahab, in mentioning to the spies the drying up of the Red Sea (Jos 2:10), the report of which terrified the Canaanites…
Cambridge BibleAcademic commentary, 1882–1921
there shall be a space Partly for the sake of reverence, partly that it might be observed and marked as it led the…
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