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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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_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...
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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;...
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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...
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_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...
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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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(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...
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וַ יֹּ֛אמֶר אֶל ־בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל
לֵ אמֹ֑ר
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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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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...
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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 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....
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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 ....
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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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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?...
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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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IN TIME TO COME:
_ Heb._ tomorrow...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Joshua 4:21 spoke H559 (H8799) children H1121 Israel H3478 saying H559
(H8800) children H1121 ask H7592 ...
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‘ 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...
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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 4:20. 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...
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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 4:6; Psalms 105:2; Psalms 145:4...