Joshua 4:22
You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over this Jordan through the dry channel.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
In Context
23The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over:
Cross References
Exodus 15:19For Pharao went in on horseback with his chariots and horsemen into the sea: and the Lord brought back upon them the waters of the sea: but the children of Israel walked on dry ground in the midst thereof.
Joshua 3:17And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.
Psalms 66:6Who turneth the sea into dry land, in the river they shall pass on foot: there shall we rejoice in him.
Isaiah 44:27Who say to the deep: Be thou desolate, and I will dry up thy rivers.
Revelation 16:12And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon that great river Euphrates; and dried up the water thereof, 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 →