Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Joshua 4:20
Which most probably were placed severally and in order, like so many little pillars, which was most proper to keep remembrance of this miraculous benefit vouchsafed to this people.
Which most probably were placed severally and in order, like so many little pillars, which was most proper to keep remembrance of this miraculous benefit vouchsafed to this people.
Verse Joshua 4:20. _THOSE TWELVE STONES_] It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected of some considerable height, and then the twelve stones placed on the top of it; and that this was th...
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...
TOOK OUT. Compare verses: Joshua 4:8; Joshua 4:9....
Erection of the Monument at Gilgal 19. _the tenth day of the first month_ Notice the exactness of the narrative. The first month is elsewhere called Abib, i.e. "the month of green ears" (Exodus 13:4;...
_those twelve stones_ which seem to have been invested with a reverence which came to be regarded at last as idolatrous (Hosea 4:15; Hosea 9:15; Amos 4:4; Amos 5:5)....
DISCOURSE: 245 THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN COMMEMORATED Joshua 4:20. Those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When yo...
_VER._ 20. _AND THOSE TWELVE STONES—DID JOSHUA PITCH IN GILGAL_— Josephus relates the matter as if the Israelites had reared these stones in the form of an altar. It is more probable, that, in order t...
_The Purpose of the Memorial Joshua 4:19-24_ 19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. 20 And those twelve sto...
_AND THOSE TWELVE STONES, WHICH THEY TOOK OUT OF JORDAN, DID JOSHUA PITCH IN GILGAL._ Those twelve stones ... did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Probably to render them more conspicuous, they might be raise...
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...
(20 — 5:9) It would seem that these verses all belong to one section. The use of the first person in Joshua 5:1, “until _we_ were passed over,” is most naturally explained by taking the verse as part...
וְ אֵת֩ שְׁתֵּ֨ים עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה הָֽ אֲבָנִים֙ 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...
Galgal. It received its name afterwards, chap. v. 9. It lay in a direct line from Jericho to the Jordan eastwards, being ten stadia from the former, and fifty from the latter place. Josue had his camp...
Who knows but that these very stones were remaining in the days of our Lord? And it is not improbable, but as all the words of Jesus were significant and full of grace, Jesus might point to them when...
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...
_MEMORIAL STONES_ ‘Twelve stones in the midst of Jordan.’ ‘Twelve stones which they took out of Jordan.’ Joshua 4:9; Joshua 4:20 There were two sets of stones raised in commemoration of the passage...
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 THOSE TWELVE STONES WHICH THEY TOOK OUT OF JORDAN,.... The twelve men who were sent there for that purpose, and took them from thence, and brought them hither, Joshua 4:3; DID JOSHUA PITCH IN GIL...
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Ver. 20. _And those twelve._] See Joshua 4:3 ....
_In Gilgal_ Probably in order, like so many little pillars, to keep up the remembrance of this miraculous benefit. Gilgal was situate between Jordan and Jericho, and, according to Josephus, was ten fu...
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 those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan did Joshua pitch, set up for a memorial, IN GILGAL....
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...
20-24 It is the duty of parents to tell their children betimes of the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In all the instruction parents give their children...
Joshua 4:20 twelve H8147 H6240 stones H68 out H3947 (H8804) Jordan H3383 Joshua H3091 up H6965 ...
‘And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.' This was in obedience to YHWH Who had told them that they must be set up at the place where they first lodged (Joshua...
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...
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 4:20 The TWELVE STONES that JOSHUA SET UP AT GILGAL represent the first of seven stone memorials described in Joshua 1:1 (see
CRITICAL NOTES. Joshua 4:20. Pitch in Gilgal] “Heb., erect, rear up” (Bush). “It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected, of some considerable height, and that the twelve stones were pla...
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 4:3; Joshua 4:8...
In Gilgal — Probably in order, like so many little pillars, to keep up the remembrance of this miraculous benefit....