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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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BEFORE. in the presence of.
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4....
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_VER._ 5. _AND JOSHUA SAID UNTO THEM, PASS OVER BEFORE THE ARK_— Or,
_Pass back again directly unto the ark._ These twelve men re-entered
the channel of the Jordan, and, being dispensed from the prohi...
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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 SAID UNTO THEM, PASS OVER BEFORE THE ARK OF THE LORD YOUR
GOD INTO THE MIDST OF JORDAN, AND TAKE YE UP EVERY MAN OF YOU A STONE
UPON HIS SHOULDER, ACCORDING UNTO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES O...
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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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PASS OVER BEFORE THE ARK] Apparently the twelve, who with the rest of
the host have already crossed to the W. bank, are bidden to return to
where the priests are still standing with the Ark in the mid...
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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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וַ יֹּ֤אמֶר לָהֶם֙ יְהֹושֻׁ֔עַ
עִ֠בְרוּ לִ פְ
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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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_Of Israel, who had twelve sons. The same expression occurs [in]
Deuteronomy xxxii. 8., and must be explained of the immediate sons of
Jacob, without including those grandchildren who might be born be...
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No doubt the choice of twelve stones was intended to manifest, that
all the twelve tribes of Israel were equally interested in the
memorial. And Jesus had his twelve apostles also. And the New
Jerusal...
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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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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 SAID UNTO THEM,.... The twelve men:
PASS YE OVER BEFORE THE ARK OF THE LORD YOUR GOD INTO THE MIDST OF
JORDAN; that is, they were to go back to Jordan again, which they had
passed over, an...
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And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your
God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone
upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of...
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_Take you out of every tribe a man_ For the greater evidence, and the
more effectual spreading the report of this marvellous work among the
tribes. _Where ye shall lodge this night_ That is, in Gilgal...
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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 said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord, your
God, into the midst of Jordan, or, Go over to the place where the ark
is now stationed, AND TAKE YOU UP, EVERY MAN OF YOU, A STONE...
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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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Joshua 4:5 Joshua H3091 said H559 (H8799) over H5674 (H8798) before
H6440 ark H727 LORD H3068 God...
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‘ Then Joshua called the twelve men whom he had prepared of the
children of Israel, out of every tribe a man, and Joshua said to them,
“You, pass over before the Ark of YHWH your God into the midst of...
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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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_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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Before the ark — That is, go back again to the place where the ark
stands....