Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Joshua 4:11
The people looking on, and beholding this wonderful work of God with attention and admiration.
The people looking on, and beholding this wonderful work of God with attention and admiration.
4. THE MEMORIAL STONES CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The first memorial (Joshua 4:1)_ 2. The second memorial (Joshua 4:9) 3. The return of the priests with the ark (Joshua 4:10) 4. The encampment at Gilgal ...
JOSHUA 3:1 TO JOSHUA 5:1. THE CROSSING OF JORDAN. Here we begin to meet with more serious difficulties. The old tradition was that after the Israelites had crossed the Jordan, they commemorated the ev...
_The Crossing Completed Joshua 4:10-18_ 10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, acco...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE CLEAN PASSED OVER, THAT THE ARK OF THE LORD PASSED OVER, AND THE PRIESTS, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE._ The ark ... passed over. The ark is mentioned...
THE DOUBLE MEMORIAL OF THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN The main subject of the chapter is the memorial cairn set up at Gilgal, which is described in two sections, Joshua 4:1 and Joshua 4:20, separated by the re...
COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 4 V1 When all the *Israelites had crossed...
וַ יְהִ֛י כַּֽ אֲשֶׁר ־תַּ֥ם כָּל ־הָ
CHAPTER IX. JORDAN DIVIDED. Joshua Ch. 3-4. AT Joshua's command the priests carrying the ark are again in motion. Bearing the sacred vessel on their shoulders, they make straight for the bank of the...
THE MEMORIAL STONES Joshua 4:1 Twelve stones were brought up from the Jordan and erected in Gilgal. They gave fathers the opportunity of telling their children of the miraculous passage of the river....
The commands of God required haste in obedience. Haste, however, never means neglect of religious observance. The very fact of their need for the divine guidance made it of supreme importance that the...
When everyone had crossed the river, Joshua commanded the priests bearing the ark to finish their crossing. Once the feet of the priests were again firmly planted on dry ground, God caused the river t...
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, (e) in the presence of the people. (e) Meaning, in the presence or sight of the...
_People, who passed over 2000 cubits lower down, and always kept the same distance, till they arrived at Galgal. (Calmet)_...
The distinction between the ark and the people is not noticed for nothing. No doubt much is couched under it. And it may, perhaps, be intended to show, that as the ark rested in the water until all th...
The book of Joshua naturally follows the five books of Moses, and indeed is connected more manifestly with those that go before it than might appear to an ordinary reader. It opens not with a mere par...
But if we are introduced into a life which is on the other side of death, by the power of the Spirit of God, as being dead and risen in Christ, there must be the remembrance of that death, by which we...
AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN THE PEOPLE WERE CLEAN PASSED OVER,.... Every one of them, as in Joshua 3:17; THAT THE ARK OF THE LORD PASSED OVER, AND THE PRIESTS, IN THE PRESENCE OF THE PEOPLE; that is, t...
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. Ver. 11. _That the ark of the Lord passed over._...
_The priests stood in the midst of Jordan till every thing was finished_ The constancy of the priests, on this occasion, bears very honourable testimony to their faith and patience; for it must have t...
1 Twelue men are appointed to take twelue stones for a memoriall out of Iordan. 9 Twelue other stones are set vp in the middest of Iordan. 10.19 The people passe ouer. 14 God magnifieth Ioshua. 20...
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, when every last one of them had reached the high ground beyond the flood-stage, THAT THE ARK OF THE LORD PASSED OVER, for it was the em...
THE STONES PITCHED IN GILGAL...
STONES OF MEMORIAL (vs.1-24) Only when all were passed over did Joshua, at God's command, instruct that each of the twelve chosen men should carry a stone out of the midst of Jordan, from the place w...
10-19 The priests with the ark did not stir till ordered to move. Let none be weary of waiting, while they have the tokens of God's presence with them, even the ark of the covenant, though it be in th...
Joshua 4:11 people H5971 completely H8552 (H8804) over H5674 (H8800) ark H727 LORD H3068 priests H3548 over...
‘ And so it was that, when the people were clean crossed over, the Ark of YHWH crossed over, and the priests in front of (in the presence of, in front of the eyes of) the people.' Once all were over a...
CONTENTS: The memorial stone. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, priests, 12 men. CONCLUSION: God's works of wonder on our behalf ought to be kept in everlasting memory and means devised for preserving our me...
Joshua 4:2. _Take you twelve men;_ out of every tribe a man of great strength to be the witnesses in their respective tribes, while the twelve stones spake with silent voice on the western shore of th...
_What mean ye by these stones?_ THE FIRST ACT IN CANAAN These stones proclaimed certain realities. Taken from the dry bed of the river, they declared God’s power in cutting off the waters before the...
CRITICAL NOTES. Joshua 4:12. Before the children of Israel] The usual order of marching was thus broken, that their promise, given in Numbers 32:17, might be faithfully observed. JOSHUA 4:13. ABOUT F...
EXPOSITION THE MEMORIAL.— JOSHUA 4:2 TWELVE STONES. The commemoration of events by the setting up of huge stones was by no means peculiar to the Jews, though it was often used by them, as, for insta...
Joshua 4:1-24 That this may be a sign among you that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones? You shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan we...
Joshua 3:17; Joshua 3:8; Joshua 4:18...