Joshua 4:22

Tell your children, 'This is where Israel crossed over the Jordan on dry ground.'

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In The King James Version

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

In Context

21He said to the people of Israel, “When your descendants ask their fathers in times to come, 'What are these stones?'

23Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan for you, until you had crossed over, just as Yahweh your God did to the Sea of Reeds, which he dried up for us until we passed over,

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Cross References

Exodus 15:19For Pharaoh's horses went with his chariots and horsemen into the sea. Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them. But the Israelites walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.

Joshua 3:17The priests that carried the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan until all the people of Israel crossed over on dry ground.

Psalms 66:6He turned the sea into dry land; 1 they went through the river on foot; 1 there we rejoiced in him. 1

Isaiah 44:27who says to the deep sea, 'Be dry, and I will dry up your currents.' 1

Revelation 16:12The sixth angel poured out his bowl into the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up in order to prepare the way for the kings that would come from the east.

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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