19 On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgalm on the eastern border of Jericho. 20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stonesn they had taken out of the Jordan. 21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’o 22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’p 23 For the Lord your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The Lord your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Seab when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.q 24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might knowr that the hand of the Lord is powerfuls and so that you might always fear the Lord your God.t”

5 Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coastu heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until theya had crossed over, their hearts melted in fearv and they no longer had the courage to face the Israelites.