Joshua 4:21
And he speaks to the sons of Israel, saying, “When your sons ask their fathers hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones?
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In Context
20and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, Joshua has raised up in Gilgal.
22Then you have caused your sons to know, saying, Israel passed over this Jordan on dry land;
Cross References
Joshua 4:6so that this is a sign in your midst when your children ask hereafter, saying, What [are] these stones to you?
Psalms 145:4Generation to generation praises Your works, || And they declare Your mighty acts.
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 →