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TAKE YOU TWELVE MEN - The order is given in the plural, because no
doubt the tribes themselves were to choose their own representatives,
the choice being approved by Joshua Joshua 4:4. These twelve wo...
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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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MEN. PI of _'ish_ or _'enosh._ See App-14.
MAN. Hebrew. _'lsh_. App-14....
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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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_TAKE YOU TWELVE MEN OUT OF THE PEOPLE, OUT OF EVERY TRIBE A MAN,_
Take you twelve men - each representing a tribe. They had been
previously chosen for this service (Joshua 3:12), and the repetition...
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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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קְח֤וּ לָכֶם֙ מִן ־הָ עָ֔ם שְׁנֵ֥ים
עָשָׂ֖ר
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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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Choose. Hebrew, "take," as [in] chap. iii. 12. Those twelve men were
ordered to attend the ark, and to observe the miracle with care: these
are chosen to carry the stones for the monuments. (Salien) -...
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Observe, it was not to be the work of every one, but special
characters selected for this service. Oh! it is sweet to see our
calling. And very sweet to run on Jesus's errands when sent by him.
Isaiah...
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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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TAKE YOU TWELVE MEN OUT OF THE PEOPLE,.... Joshua had before this
ordered twelve men to be taken from among them, which seems to have
been done of himself; and now he has a direction from God for it,...
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Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
Ver. 2. _Out of every tribe a man._] For the two tribes and half
planted beyond Jordan were also concerned, as being of the same body...
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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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THE STONES TAKEN FROM THE MIDST OF THE RIVER BED...
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Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, as
had been provided for before the crossing began, Joshua 3:12,...
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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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For the greater evidence and certainty, and the more effectual
spreading of the report of this marvellous work among all the tribes....
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Joshua 4:2 Take H3947 (H8798) twelve H8147 H6240 men H582 people H5971
man H376 every H259 tribe...
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CHAPTER 4. SETTING UP A MEMORIAL.
This chapter describes how God commanded that the men of Israel should
take twelve stones out of the middle of Jordan, and carry them to the
first place they lodged a...
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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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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 4:2 TWELVE MEN. Each of the 12 tribes is
represented, showing the importance of the Jordan crossing for all
Israel (see Joshua 3:12)....
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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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1 Kings 18:31; Deuteronomy 1:23; Joshua 3:12; Matthew 10:15; Number
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Out of every tribe a man — For the greater evidence, and the more
effectual spreading the report of this marvellous work among all the
tribes....