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LAID THEM DOWN THERE - i. e. in Gilgal Joshua 4:20. Spoken of as the
doers of this, because it was done by the twelve who acted for them....
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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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AS. according as.
TOOK UP. Four things said of these memorial stones in Joshua 4:8 and
Joshua 4:9, (1) taken up; (2) carried over; (3) laid down; (4) set up.
THERE. See note on Joshua 8:30....
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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 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SO AS JOSHUA COMMANDED, AND TOOK UP
TWELVE STONES OUT OF THE MIDST OF JORDAN, AS THE LORD SPAKE UNTO
JOSHUA, ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF THE TRIBES OF THE CHILDREN OF
IS...
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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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וַ יַּעֲשׂוּ ־כֵ֣ן בְּנֵי
־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮ כַּ אֲ
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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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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 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DID SO AS JOSHUA COMMANDED,.... That is,
the twelve men taken out of the twelve tribes of Israel, and who were
the representatives of them in this action;
AND TOOK UP TWELV...
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And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up
twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto
Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of
Isr...
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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 the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up
twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, the twelve men acting as the
representatives of the entire host or congregation, AS THE LOR...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Joshua 4:8 children H1121 Israel H3478 did H6213 (H8799) Joshua H3091
commanded H6680 (H8765) up H5375 ...
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‘ And the children of Israel did so, as Joshua commanded, and took
up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan as YHWH spoke to Joshua,
in accordance with the number of the tribes of the children of I...
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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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Joshua 1:16; Joshua 4:2...