Joshua 4:2
“When you choose the twelve men, one from each tribe, whom I mentioned previously, tell them to pick up large stones from the middle of the Jordan riverbed, where the priests are still standing.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
In Context
3Tell them to carry the stones with you and put them down at the place where you will stay tonight.”
Cross References
Numbers 13:2“Send some men to Canaan land to explore it. That is the land that I will give to you Israelis. Send men who are leaders in their tribes.”
Deuteronomy 1:23I thought that it would be good to do that, so I chose twelve men, one man from each tribe.
1 Kings 18:31Then he took twelve large stones, each one to represent one of the Israeli tribes. The names of those tribes were given to them by their ancestor Jacob.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 4:2-10
The Passage over the Jordan. ( b. c. 1451.) 1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom… Read the whole commentary →