King James Version
Joshua 3:2 in the King James Version says “And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 3 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;”
Joshua 3:2 · KJV
And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;
And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it.
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 . heretofore: Heb. since yesterday, and the third day
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to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)
“days”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
“went”
H5674to cross over; used very widely of any transition (literal or figurative; transitive, intransitive, intensive, causative); specifically, to cover (in
“that the officers”
H7860properly, a scribe, i.e., (by analogy or implication) an official superintendent or magistrate
“through”
H7130properly, the nearest part, i.e., the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
“the host”
H4264an encampment (of travellers or troops); hence, an army, whether literal (of soldiers) or figurative (of dancers, angels, cattle, locusts, stars; or e
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