Joshua 4:1

Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,

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And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

In Context

2Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 27:2And on the day when you go over Jordan into the land which the Lord your God is giving you, put up great stones, coating them with building-paste,

Joshua 24:11Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:1

This 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 ) and other twelve stones taken up out of Jordan, ver. 1-8 . II. The march of the people through Jordan's channel, the two tribes first, then all the people, and the priests that bore the ark last, ver. 10-14 . III. The closing of the waters again upon their coming up with the ark, ver. 15-19 . IV. The… Read the whole commentary →

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