Joshua 4:21
saying, When your sons ask you, saying, What are these stones?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
20And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Gilgal,
22Tell your sons, that Israel went over this Jordan on dry land,
Cross References
Joshua 4:6that these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when thy son asks thee in future, saying, What are these stones to us?
Psalms 145:4His breath shall go forth, and he shall return to his earth; 1 In that day all his thoughts shall perish. 1
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 →