Joshua 4:22
then shall ye let your sons know, saying,—On dry ground, came Israel over this Jordan;
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
In Context
Cross References
Exodus 15:19For the horses of Pharaoh, with his chariots and his horsemen, entered into the sea, Then did Yahweh bring back upon them the waters of the sea,—But the sons of Israel, had gone their way on the dry ground through the midst of the sea.
Joshua 3:17And the priests who were bearing the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, stood on dry ground, in the midst of the Jordan, with firm footing,—while all Israel were passing over on dry ground, until all the nation had made an end of passing over the Jordan.
Psalms 66:6He turned the sea into dry land, Through the stream, crossed they over on foot, There did we rejoice in him:
Isaiah 44:27Who saith to the deep—Be dry and Thy rivers, will I drain!
Revelation 16:12And, the sixth, poured out his bowl upon the great river: [the] Euphrates; and the water thereof, was dried up, that the way might be prepared, of the kings who were from the rising of the sun.
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 →