Scriptures

New King James Version (NKJV)

Joshua 4
¹⁸ And it came to pass, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet touched the dry land, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks as before.
¹⁹ Now the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
²⁰ And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
²¹ Then he spoke to the children of Israel, saying: "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ’What are these stones?’
²² then you shall let your children know, saying, ’Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry land’;
²³ for the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over,
²⁴ that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty, that you may fear the Lord your God forever."
Joshua 5
¹ So it was, when all the kings of the Amorites who were on the west side of the Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, that their heart melted; and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the children of Israel.
² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make flint knives for yourself, and circumcise the sons of Israel again the second time."
³ So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way, after they had come out of Egypt.