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Verse Joshua 4:10. _AND THE PEOPLE HASTED AND PASSED OVER._] How very
natural is this circumstance! The people seeing the waters divided,
and Jordan running back, might be apprehensive that it would...
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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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_the priests which bare the ark stood_ Their patient attitude,
standing still and motionless, was eminently calculated to impart
courage to the people....
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_VER._ 10. _ACCORDING TO ALL THAT MOSES COMMANDED JOSHUA_— Some
interpreters are of opinion from these words, that Moses, before his
death, gave some intimation and orders to Joshua respecting the
pas...
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_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...
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_FOR THE PRIESTS WHICH BARE THE ARK STOOD IN THE MIDST OF JORDAN,
UNTIL EVERYTHING WAS FINISHED THAT THE LORD COMMANDED JOSHUA TO SPEAK
UNTO THE PEOPLE, ACCORDING TO ALL THAT MOSES COMMANDED JOSHUA: A...
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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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ACCORDING TO ALL THAT MOSES COMMANDED JOSHUA. — It would seem that
the passage of Jordan had been made the subject of some directions by
Moses, though nothing is written concerning the manner of it in...
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וְ הַ כֹּהֲנִ֞ים נֹשְׂאֵ֣י הָ אָרֹ֗ון
עֹמְדִי
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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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_To him. Moses had been dead forty days. But it seems this miraculous
division of the Jordan had been revealed to him, and he had cautioned
Josue to let slip no opportunity of attaching the people to...
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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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10._For the priests which bare, _etc If we are ordered to halt while
others are hastening, we know how easily a feeling of irksomeness is
produced, because we seem to be occupying an inferior position...
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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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FOR THE PRIESTS WHICH BARE THE ARK STOOD IN THE MIDST OF JORDAN,....
Though on dry ground, the waters being divided:
UNTIL EVERYTHING WAS FINISHED THAT THE LORD COMMANDED JOSHUA TO SPEAK
UNTO THE PEO...
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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, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: a...
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_The priests stood in the midst of Jordan till every thing was
finished_ The constancy of the priests, on this occasion, bears very
honourable testimony to their faith and patience; for it must have
t...
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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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THE STONES PITCHED IN GILGAL...
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For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan until
everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto
the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and...
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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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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...
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TO SPEAK UNTO THE PEOPLE, i.e. to command the people to do. According
to all that Moses commanded Joshua; which he did not particularly, but
in the general, because he commanded Joshua to observe and...
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‘ For the priests who bore the Ark stood in the midst of Jordan,
until everything was finished that YHWH commanded Joshua to speak to
the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua, and the...
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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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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...
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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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2 Corinthians 6:2; Deuteronomy 31:9; Ecclesiastes 9:10; Exodus 12:39;...
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Commanded Joshua — Not particularly, but in general; because he
commanded Joshua to observe and do all that God had commanded him by
Moses, and all that he should command him any other way. Hasted —
T...