Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.
As recorded here, the narrative is very complex.  As Blair pointed out, this complexity is the very thing overlooked by, "Those who have attempted to solve this narrative by appealing to `different accounts' woven together."[1]  We might be able to forgive such explanations if there were any different accounts, but, of course, this is the only account that has come down through history.  Those ephemeral, imaginary "accounts" prior to this one are known to be non-existent except in the imaginations of men who are already committed to a denial of the sacred record found in the Bible.