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Matthew Henry Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4 - Introduction

* Stones taken out of Jordan. (1-9) The people pass through Jordan. (10-19) The twelve stones placed in Gilgal. (20-24)

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See also Joshua 4 - Introduction in other biblical comments:

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _TWELVE STONES ARE TAKEN FOR A MEMORIAL OUT OF JORDAN: TWELVE OTHER STONES ARE SET UP IN THE MIDST THEREOF, THE PEOPLE PASS THROUGH THE RIVER, AND JOSHUA ERECTS IN GILGAL THE TWELVE STONES TAKEN OUT O...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    A DIGEST OF CHAPTER 4 Joshua 4:1-9 _The memorials of the crossing._ The purpose for the selecting of twelve men from among the tribes of Israel was finally demonstrated as each man took a stone out o...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    1:1 Joshua (a-19) Meaning 'Jehovah [is] Saviour.' see Numbers 13:16 ....

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 4 This chapter relates an order, that is men, should take twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, and carry them to the first place they lodged at as a memorial of their pass...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451._ Twelve stones taken up out of the midst of Jordan, and twelve set up there for a memorial, Joshua 4:1. The march of the people through Jordan, Joshua 4:10. God magnifies Joshu...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    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. 2...

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