And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan,....
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Joshua 4:18
Joshua 4:18
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible · John Gill (1697–1771) · Public Domain
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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
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preserve the memorial of it, by twelve stones set up in Jordan (ver. 9)…Joshua 4 — OverviewJoshua 4 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJoshua 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 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 4:10-19Joshua 4:10-19 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe inspired historian seems to be so well pleased with his subject
here that he is loth to quit it, and is therefore very particular in
his narrative, especially in observing how closely Joshua pursued the…Joshua 4:18Joshua 4:18 · Treasury of Scripture Knowledgethe soles: Joshua 3:13, Joshua 3:15
lifted up: Heb. plucked up
that the waters: As soon as the priests and the ark were come up out of Jordan, the waters of the river, which had stood on a heap, flowed down according…