Joshua 4:21

Joshua said to the Israeli people, “In the future, when your children and grandchildren ask, ‘◄What do these stones mean/Why are these stones here►?’,

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

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?

In Context

20The men who were carrying the twelve large stones from the Jordan riverbed brought them to Joshua, and he set them up at Gilgal

22tell them, ‘We Israeli people crossed the Jordan River as though we were crossing on dry ground.

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Cross References

Joshua 4:6Then pile them up to be a memorial for you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’,

Psalms 145:4Parents should tell their children the things that you have done; they should tell their children about your mighty deeds.

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 →

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