And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying,.... At the same time he set up the stones:when you children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,What [mean] these stones?
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Joshua 4:21
Joshua 4:21
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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 · 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 4:20-24Joshua 4:20-24 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThe twelve stones which were laid down in Gilgal (v. 8) are here set up
either one upon another, yet so as that they might be distinctly
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in time to come: Heb. to-morrow