Joshua 4:1, Twelve men are appointed to take twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan; Joshua 4:9, Twelve other stones are set up in the midst of Jordan; Joshua 4:10, The people pass over; Joshua 4:14, God magnifies Joshua; Joshua 4:15, The priests commanded to come out of Jordan; Joshua 4:20, The twelve stones are pitched in Gilgal.
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Joshua 4 — OverviewJoshua 4 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter gives a further account of the miraculous passage of
Israel through Jordan. I. The provision that was made at that time to
preserve the memorial of it, by twelve stones set up in Jordan (ver. 9)…Joshua 4 — OverviewJoshua 4 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis chapter relates an order, that is men, should take twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, and carry them to the first place they lodged at as a memorial of their passage over it, Jos 4:1; and how Joshua set up…Joshua 4:1-9Joshua 4:1-9 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleWe may well imagine how busy Joshua and all the men of war were while
they were passing over Jordan, when besides their own marching into an
enemy's country, and in the face of the enemy, which could not but…Joshua 4:1Joshua 4:1 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgewere clean passed: Joshua 3:17; Deuteronomy 27:2Joshua 4:2Joshua 4:2 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgetwelve men: Joshua 3:12; Numbers 1:4-15, Numbers 13:2, Numbers 34:18; Deuteronomy 1:23; 1 Kings 18:31; Matthew 10:1-5Joshua 4:2Joshua 4:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleTake you twelve men out of the people,.... Joshua had before this ordered twelve men to be taken from among them, which seems to have been done of himself; and now he has a direction from God for it, and what to employ…