Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Joshua 4:18
The waters came down from their heaps, and returned with all convenient speed into their proper channel, according to their natural and usual course.
The waters came down from their heaps, and returned with all convenient speed into their proper channel, according to their natural and usual course.
Verse Joshua 4:18. _THE WATERS OF JORDAN RETURNED UNTO THEIR PLACE_] It is particularly remarked by the sacred historian, that as soon as the soles of the priests' feet touched the water, the stream...
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 waters of Jordan returned_ Thus the history of the crossing is related in sections: (_a_) first briefly, Joshua 3:14-17; (_b_) then more completely, Joshua 4:1-11; (_c_) some supplementary notice...
_VER._ 15-18. _AND THE LORD SPAKE UNTO JOSHUA,_ &C.— Before the people advanced into the country, Joshua had commanded the priests, who bare the ark, to quit the channel of the river, and come to the...
_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 THE PRIESTS THAT BARE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD WERE COME UP OUT OF THE MIDST OF JORDAN, AND THE SOLES OF THE PRIESTS' FEET WERE LIFTED UP UNTO THE DRY LAND, THAT...
4:18 previously, (a-57) See Genesis 31:2 ....
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...
וַ֠ יְהִי _כַּ_†_עֲלֹ֨ות_† הַ כֹּהֲנִ֜ים נֹשְׂאֵ֨י...
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...
Nothing could be more demonstrative of the miraculous holding of the waters, than the sudden return of the flood, when the purpose, for which the Lord held those waters in the hollow of his hand, was...
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 PRIESTS THAT BARE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD WERE COME UP OUT OF THE MIDST OF JORDAN,.... According to the command of Joshua in the name of the Lord: [AND] THE...
And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, [and] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that...
_The waters of Jordan returned_ They had stood on a heap while the ark was in the river, but came tumbling down when it was removed, which showed to a demonstration that it was to God's presence with...
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 the priests that bare the Ark of the Covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, litera...
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...
LIFT UP: _ Heb._ plucked up FLOWED OVER: _ Heb._ went...
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 4:18 priests H3548 bore H5375 (H8802) ark H727 covenant H1285 LORD H3068 come H5927 (H8800) midst...
‘ And so it was that when the priests who bore the Ark of the covenant of YHWH came up from the middle of Jordan, and the soles of the priest's feet were lifted up to the dry ground, the waters of Jor...
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...
1 Chronicles 12:15; Exodus 14:26; Isaiah 8:8; Joshua 3:13; Joshua 3:15
Their place — Returned into their proper channel, according to their natural and usual course....