Joshua 4:1 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, ”

Joshua 4:1 - 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...
Joshua 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

were clean passed over . were finished passing over. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4. spake. See note on Joshua 1:1 .
Joshua 4:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

l. And it came to pass, etc The brief and obscure allusion previously made with regard to the twelve men he now explains more at length. He had said that they were chosen by the order of God...
Joshua 4:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua 4:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, The Lord spake unto Joshua saying,
Joshua 4:1 - 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 4:1-8 and Joshua 4:20-24 , separa...
Joshua 4:1 - 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 o...
Joshua 4:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Memorial Stones Joshua 4:1-24 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 t...
Joshua 4:1 - 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 th...
Joshua 4:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

CONTENTS The people having all passed over Jordan, the priests are commanded to come up out of Jordan with the ark of God, and pass over also. A memorial is commanded to be set up, both in Jordan, w...
Joshua 4:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan ,.... As related, Joshua 3:17 ; that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying : as follows.
Joshua 4:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, Ver. 1. And it came to pass, when all the people. ] Heb., All the nation; Goi, so...
Joshua 4:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord spake unto Joshua This was commanded before, ( Joshua 3:12 ,) and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution. It is the pious conjecture of the learned Bishop P...
Joshua 4:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 pla...
Joshua 4:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Passage over the Jordan. B. C. 1451. 1 And it came to pass, when all the people were...
Joshua 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

JOSHUA CHAPTER 4 God commands them to carry twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan; Joshua orders it; the people perform, Joshua 4:1-8 . Twelve other stones set up for a memorial in the mids...
Joshua 4:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

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 lodg...
Joshua 4:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Joshua 4:1 - 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...
Joshua 4:1 - 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...
Joshua 4:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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 the...
Joshua 4:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
Joshua 4:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 27:2 ; Joshua 3:17
Joshua 4:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Spake — This was commanded before, Joshua 3:12 , and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution.

Joshua 4:1 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joshua 4:1 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 4:1 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 4:1 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 4:1 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 4:1 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 4:1 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 4:1 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:1 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 4:1 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 4:1 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 4:1 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 4:1 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 4:1 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 4:1 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes