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Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:14

‘ On that day YHWH magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.'

That day was the making of Joshua in the eyes of the people more than any other day before or after. It filled them with awe. They recognised that here was one who was entrusted with awesome powers by YHWH, just as Moses had been before him, that Joshua was a second Moses. And they never forgot it.

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See also Joshua 4:14 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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 ...

  • 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...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    ON THAT DAY. Compare Joshua 3:7....

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 14. _ON THAT DAY THE LORD MAGNIFIED JOSHUA,_ &C.— By the miracle which had just given happy success to that general's first enterprize, and which acquired to him the same confidence and respect...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

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  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    ALL THE DAYS OF HIS LIFE. — This ends the section, as appears by comparison with Joshua 3:7. Observe that Joshua’s position, as equal to Moses in the respect of the people, dates from the passage of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    בַּ † יֹּ֣ום הַ ה֗וּא גִּדַּ֤ל יְהוָה֙...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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....

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

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  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _In, &c. Josue recapitulates how this miracle established his authority, and how he was ordered to command the priests to come up from the midst of the Jordan, after the people had all got to the othe...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

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  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

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  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

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  • John Darby's Synopsis

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  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

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  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. Ver. 14. _The Lord magnified Joshua._] See Joshua 3:7 ....

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

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  • 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. 20...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

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  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE STONES PITCHED IN GILGAL...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    No text from Poole on this verse....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 4:14 day H3117 LORD H3068 exalted H1431 (H8765) Joshua H3091 sight H5869 Israel H3478 feared H3372 ...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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 ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 4:14 EXALTED. See Joshua 3:7. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 10:2; 1 Kings 3:28; 1 Samuel 12:18; 2 Chronicles 30:12;...

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