Joshua 3

The Lord told Joshua that He would exalt him in the eyes of the people, so that all Israel may know that the Lord is with him just as He was with Moses. The Israelites, under Joshua's leadership, followed after the priests across the Jordan on dry land. The Lord had cut off the Jordan river, so that the water upstream stopped flowing when the priests entered the river's edge with the ark of the covenant. "So the people crossed over opposite Jericho and the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel passed by until the whole nation had completed the crossing on dry ground".