Joshua 3:16 (KJV)

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That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam that is beside Zaretan and those that came down toward the sea of the plain even the salt sea failed and were cut off and the people passed over right against Jericho

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Cross-references

rose up. Jos 3:13 Ps 29:10 Ps 77:19 Ps 114:3 Mt 8:26 Mt 8:27 Mt 14:24-33

Zaretan. 1Ki 4:12

Zartanah. 1Ki 7:46

Zarthan. the salt sea. Jos 15:2 Ge 14:3 Nu 34:3 De 3:17

The passage through the Red Sea took place in the night, when the Israelites were fleeing from the Egyptians with great trepidation: but they passed Jordan in the day-time, with previous warning, leisurely, directly opposite to Jericho, and with a triumphant defiance of the Canaanites; this passage into the promised land evidently typifying the believer's passage through death to heaven.

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