Joshua 4:21
Then 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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In Context
20And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
22you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
Cross References
Joshua 4:6to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
Psalms 145:4One generation will commend Your works to the next, and will proclaim 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 →