Joshua 4:20

And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

In Context

19On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

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Cross References

Joshua 4:3and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:11-20

10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. 11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the… Read the whole commentary →

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