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Verse Joshua 4:9. _AND JOSHUA SET UP TWELVE STONES IN THE MIDST OF
JORDAN_] It seems from this chapter that there were two sets of stones
erected as a memorial of this great event; twelve at Gilgal,...
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Another set of stones is intended than that before mentioned. The one
set was erected by the command of God at the spot where they passed
the night Joshua 4:3; the other by Joshua on the spot where th...
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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 ...
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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...
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TWELVE. Septuagint has "other twelve". There were two twelves....
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_VER._ 9. _AND JOSHUA SET UP TWELVE STONES IN THE MIDST OF JORDAN_—
Beside the monument which was erected in the _lodging-place_ or camp,
Joshua caused other twelve large stones to be placed in the ch...
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_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...
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_AND JOSHUA SET UP TWELVE STONES IN THE MIDST OF JORDAN, IN THE PLACE
WHERE THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS WHICH BARE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
STOOD: AND THEY ARE THERE UNTO THIS DAY._ JOSHUA SET UP TWELVE ST...
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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...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 4
V1 When all the *Israelites had crossed...
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(8-9) ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES.... — Every tribe was
represented by a stone on either side Jordan. The two cairns represent
a complete Israel in the wilderness, and a complete Israel in t...
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וּ שְׁתֵּ֧ים עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה אֲבָנִ֗ים
הֵקִ֣ים יְהֹושֻׁעַ֮...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...
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And Joshua set up (d) twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
stood: and they are there unto this day.
(d) Besides the twel...
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Day. Some hence infer that Josue did not write this book. But surely
if he wrote it towards the end of his life, he might well use this
expression, (Menochius) as St. Matthew does to denote a shorter...
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The erection of the memorial both on the river and on the land, might
be intended to show the salvation of Jesus both by land and by water.
Psalms 77:16....
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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...
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_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...
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9._And Joshua set up twelve stones, _etc Apparently there was no use
of stones under the water, and it may therefore seem to have been
absurd to bury stones at a depth. The others which were placed in...
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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...
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AND JOSHUA SET UP TWELVE STONES IN THE MIDST OF JORDAN,.... Twelve
other stones, as the Septuagint and Vulgate Latin versions, and so
Jarchi; which he set one upon another, so that they might be seen...
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And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place
where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
stood: and they are there unto this day.
Ver. 9. _And Joshua set...
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_Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan_ These stones are
not the same with those mentioned Joshua 4:5, which a man might carry
upon his shoulder. They were undoubtedly very much larger, a...
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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...
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And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, where they
might become visible when the water was at low stage, IN THE PLACE
WHERE THE FEET OF THE PRIESTS WHICH BARE THE ARK OF THE COVENANT
S...
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THE STONES TAKEN FROM THE MIDST OF THE RIVER BED...
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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...
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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,...
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IN THE MIDST OF JORDAN; properly so called; as JOSHUA 3:17. QUEST. How
could these stones be a monument of this work, when they were not
seen, but generally covered with the waters of Jordan? ANSW. Th...
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Joshua 4:9 Joshua H3091 up H6965 (H8689) twelve H8147 H6240 stones H68
midst H8432 Jordan H3383 feet...
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‘ And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
place where the feet of the priests who bore the Ark of the covenant
stood, and they are there to this day.'
As well as setting twelve...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 4:9 JOSHUA SET UP TWELVE STONES IN THE MIDST
OF THE JORDAN. It is unclear whether this is a separate group of
stones from those set up in Gilgal (vv. Joshua 4:8,...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Kings 18:31; 1 Samuel 30:25; 2 Chronicles 5:9; 2 Samuel 4:3;...
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Twelve stones — These stones are not the same with those which a man
could carry upon his shoulder, Joshua 4:5. They might be very much
larger; and being set up in two rows one above another, might be...