Joshua 4:22
you shall teach them, and you shall say: ‘Israel passed over this Jordan, through the dry channel.’
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
In Context
23For the Lord your God dried up its waters in your sight, until you crossed over,
Cross References
Exodus 15:19For the rider Pharaoh, with his chariots and horsemen, was brought into the sea. And the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea. But the sons of Israel walked across dry ground in its midst.”
Joshua 3:17Then the people advanced opposite Jericho. And the priests who were carrying the ark of the covenant of the Lord were standing, fully-dressed, upon dry soil in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over, through the channel that was dried up.
Psalms 66:6Let the peoples confess to you, O God. Let all the peoples confess to you.
Isaiah 44:27I say to the depths, “Be desolate,” and, “I will dry up your rivers.”
Revelation 16:12And the sixth Angel poured out his bowl upon that great river Euphrates. And its water dried up, so that a way might be prepared for the kings from the rising of the sun.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:21-24
20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone… Read the whole commentary →