4:14
“The Lord exalted Joshua”. One of the themes of the book is that God exalts Joshua. This means that He makes it clear to all the people that He is with Joshua, or rather that Joshua is acting on God’s behalf. Joshua is with God. Back in Gen 12:2,3 God promised to exalt Abraham. So the people stood in awe of Joshua in the same way that they had stood in awe of Moses.
4:15-18
The priests had gone into the Jordan at Joshua’s command. They do not come out of the Jordan until Joshua commands them to. We also see the common pattern of God speaking to Joshua, then Joshua speaks to the people, in this case to the priests. As soon as the priests, together with the ark of the covenant, come out of the Jordan, the waters are released. They could not go back the way that they had come.
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