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1After Israel had crossed the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua:
4Joshua chose twelve men; then he called them together
5and said:
8The men followed the instructions that the Lord had given Joshua. They picked up twelve rocks, one for each tribe, and carried them to the camp, where they put them down.
9Joshua set up a monument next to the place where the priests were standing. This monument was also made of twelve large rocks, and it is still there in the middle of the river.
10-11-12-13The army got ready for battle and crossed the Jordan with everyone else. They marched quickly past the sacred chest and into the desert near Jericho. Forty thousand soldiers from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh led the way, as Moses had ordered.[#4.10-13 The Hebrew text has “the .” The army was marching past the sacred chest, which was a symbol of God's throne on earth (see 1 Samuel 4.4 and Exodus 25.10-22; 37.1-9).; #4.10-13 Or “There were forty thousand soldiers altogether, and those from the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and East Manasseh.”; #4.10-13 See Numbers 32.16-32; Joshua 1.12-16.]
The priests stayed right where they were until the people had followed the orders that the Lord had given Moses and Joshua. Then they watched as the priests carried the chest the rest of the way across.
14-15-16-17-18“Joshua,” the Lord said, “tell the priests to come up from the Jordan and bring the chest with them.” So Joshua went over to the priests and told them what the Lord had said. And as soon as the priests carried the chest past the highest place that the floodwaters of the Jordan had reached, the river flooded its banks again.
That's how the Lord showed the Israelites that Joshua was their leader. For the rest of Joshua's life, they respected him as they had respected Moses.
19It was the tenth day of the first month of the year when Israel crossed the Jordan River. They set up camp at Gilgal, which was east of the land controlled by Jericho.[#4.19 Abib (also called Nisan), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.]
20The men who had carried the twelve rocks from the Jordan brought them to Joshua, and they made them into a monument.
21Then Joshua told the people: