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    Joshua 4

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    The river gets two monuments: twelve stones are carried out of it, and Joshua leaves another twelve standing in its middle—where the water will shortly return and overflow the banks.

    Twelve out, twelve invv. 1–18

    Once Israel has crossed the Jordan, twelve men are sent back into the river, one from each tribe, to shoulder stones out to the camp. Joshua then adds a second set of twelve stones in the riverbed, while the priests remain there with the ark until every last command has been carried out and the people have hurried across. The Reubenites, Gadites, and half of Manasseh lead the armed crossing, some 40,000 strong, into the plains of Jericho. Joshua is exalted in Israel; then, at his command, the priests step onto dry ground, and the Jordan resumes its old exuberant business, overflowing all its banks.

    The stones at Gilgalvv. 19–24

    On the tenth day of the first month, the people camp at Gilgal on Jericho’s eastern border, and the stones carried from the Jordan are set up there. Joshua gives the stones their future occupation: children will ask about them, and fathers will tell of Israel crossing on dry ground. The Jordan is compared with the Red Sea, not because either river needs help with its reputation, but because both waters were dried until the people had passed.

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    1. Josh 4:1When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,

    2. Josh 4:2“Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,

    3. Josh 4:3and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”

    4. Josh 4:4So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,

    5. Josh 4:5and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,

    6. Josh 4:6to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

    7. Josh 4:7you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

    8. Josh 4:8Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.

    9. Josh 4:9Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

    10. Josh 4:10Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,

    11. Josh 4:11and after everyone had finished crossing, the priests with the ark of the LORD crossed in the sight of the people.

    12. Josh 4:12The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over before the Israelites, armed for battle as Moses had instructed them.

    13. Josh 4:13About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.

    14. Josh 4:14On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.

    15. Josh 4:15Then the LORD said to Joshua,

    16. Josh 4:16“Command the priests who carry the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan.”

    17. Josh 4:17So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”

    18. Josh 4:18When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.

    19. Josh 4:19On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

    20. Josh 4:20And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

    21. Josh 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

    22. Josh 4:22you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

    23. Josh 4:23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.

    24. Josh 4:24He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”

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    • 6Exodus 13:14In the future, when your son asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ you are to tell him, ‘With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
    • 24Psalms 106:8Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
    • 6Joshua 4:21Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
    • 241 Kings 8:42–43for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
    • 24Psalms 89:13Mighty is Your arm; strong is Your hand. Your right hand is exalted.
    • 1Deuteronomy 27:2And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.
    • 14Joshua 3:7Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.
    • 7Exodus 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
    • 18Joshua 3:15Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water’s edge,
    • 23Exodus 14:21Then Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and all that night the LORD drove back the sea with a strong east wind that turned it into dry land. So the waters were divided,
    • 2Joshua 3:12Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.
    • 3Joshua 4:19–20On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
    • 6Psalms 44:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of the sons of Korah. We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
    • 20Joshua 4:8Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.
    • 20Joshua 4:3and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
    • 241 Chronicles 29:12Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

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