Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
      II. That the people were directed to follow the ark. Officers were appointed to go through the host to give these directions (Joshua 3:2; Joshua 3:2), that every Israelite might know both what to do and what to depend upon.