And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying,.... At the same time he set up the stones:
when you children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,
What [mean] these stones? Joshua 4:6.
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...
_When your children_ Nothing is more carefully inculcated in the Law than the duty of parents to teach their children not only its precepts and principles, but the meaning of all the great historical...
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;...
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...
_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...
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...
וַ יֹּ֛אמֶר אֶל ־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לֵ אמֹ֑ר
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...
We meet with many passages in the Bible, of the Lord's directing his people to gratify the enquiry of their children in all questions of divine things. And what can be more sweet or more suited to the...
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...
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 he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones? Ver. 21. See Joshua 4:6,7 ....
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 he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?...
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...
IN TIME TO COME: _ Heb._ tomorrow...
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...
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Joshua 4:21 spoke H559 (H8799) children H1121 Israel H3478 saying H559 (H8800) children H1121 ask H7592 ...
‘ And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What mean these stones?' Then you shall let your children know saying, ‘Israel c...
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 4:21 These STONES will help teach future generations to respect and obey the all-powerful God. ⇐...
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 4:6; Psalms 105:2; Psalms 145:4...