Joshua 4:1-18. Completion of the Passage
1. when all the people were clean passed over Below the spot, where the priests stood firm and motionless, the host, probably at various points, "hasted and passed over" (Joshua 4:10).
CHAPTER IV _When the people are passed over, Joshua commands twelve men, one_ _taken out of each tribe, to take up a stone on his shoulder out_ _of the midst of the river, and carry it to the other...
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...
WERE CLEAN PASSED OVER. were finished passing over. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. SPAKE. See note on Joshua 1:1....
_The Memorials of the Crossing Joshua 4:1-9_ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Take you twelve men out of the people, o...
_AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE CLEAN PASSED OVER JORDAN, THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO JOSHUA, SAYING,_ The Lord spake unto Joshua saying,...
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 יְהִי֙ כַּ אֲשֶׁר ־תַּ֣מּוּ כָל ־הַ
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...
CONTENTS The people having all passed over Jordan, the priests are commanded to come up out of Jordan with the ark of God, and pass over also. A memorial is commanded to be set up, both in Jordan, wh...
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...
l._And it came to pass, _etc The brief and obscure allusion previously made with regard to the twelve men he now explains more at length. He had said that they were chosen by the order of God, one eac...
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 ALL THE PEOPLE WERE CLEAN PASSED OVER JORDAN,.... As related, Joshua 3:17; THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO JOSHUA, SAYING: as follows....
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, Ver. 1. _And it came to pass, when all the people._] Heb., All the nation; _Goi,_ so t...
_The Lord spake unto Joshua_ This was commanded before, (Joshua 3:12,) and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution. It is the pious conjecture of the learned Bishop Patr...
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...
THE STONES TAKEN FROM THE MIDST OF THE RIVER BED...
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,...
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...
1-9 The works of the Lord are so worthy of rememberance, and the heart of man is so prone to forget them, that various methods are needful to refresh our memories, for the glory of God, our advantage,...
JOSHUA CHAPTER 4 God commands them to carry twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan; Joshua orders it; the people perform, JOSHUA 4:1. Twelve other stones set up for a memorial in the midst of Jord...
Joshua 4:1 people H1471 completely H8552 (H8804) over H5674 (H8800) Jordan H3383 LORD H3068 spoke H559 ...
CHAPTER 4. SETTING UP A MEMORIAL. This chapter describes how God commanded that the men of Israel should take twelve stones out of the middle of Jordan, and carry them to the first place they lodged 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...
_THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN, AND ITS MEMORIAL_ CRITICAL NOTES. Joshua 4:2. Take you twelve men] These had been already chosen for the work. The twelfth verse in chap. 3. is not to be regarded as mispl...
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...
Deuteronomy 27:2; Joshua 3:17...
Spake — This was commanded before, Joshua 3:12, and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution....