Matthew Poole and continuators on 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 .

Which having been affirmed by Heathen Writers to have been done by Magicians, it is great impudence to disbelieve or doubt of Gods power to do it.

The City Adam being more obscure, is described by its nearness to a more known place, Zaretan, or Sarthan, which some think is the same place mentioned 1 King. 4. 12. and 7. 46. but it rather seems to have been another place then eminent, but now unknown, as many thousands are. The meaning is, That the Waters were stopped in their course at that place, and so kept at a due distance from the Israelites whilst they passed over.

Here God carried them over, because this part was, 1. The strongest, as having in its Neighbourhood an eminent City, a potent King, and a stout and Warlike people. 2. The most pleasant and fruitful, and therefore more convenient both for the Refreshment of the Israelites after their long and tedious Marches, and for their Encouragement to their present Expedition.