Joshua 3:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

Adam. The waters were divided at (or near) the city "Adam", and they were heaped up at (or near) "Zaretun", another city far off from "Adam".

Zaretan in the land of Manasseh. Called Zartanah in 1 Kings 4:12. The brazen vessels of the temple were cast there in the plain of Jordan (1 Kings 7:46.

sea of the plain: i.e. the Dead Sea.

salt sea. Figure of speech. Polyonymia. App-6.

the People passed over.. way cleft through the sea (Exodus 14), through the river (Joshua 3), and in the future through the air Philippians 3:14; 1 Thessalonians 4:17).

Joshua 3:16

16 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.