Joshua 4:16 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. ”

Joshua 4:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Command the priests that bear the (g) ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. (g) Because the ark testified God's presence, and the tables of the Law contained in it signified God's w...
Joshua 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. Command the priests, etc Here it is shown more clearly how meekly and calmly the priests yielded implicit obedience to the divine command, for they did not move a foot until Joshua order...
Joshua 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.
Joshua 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 15-18. And the Lord spake unto Joshua, &c.— Before the people advanced into the country, Joshua had commanded the priests, who bare the ark, to quit the channel of the river, and come...
Joshua 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, No JFB commentary on these verses.
Joshua 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Command the priests... that they come up out of Jordan. — Observe that the removal of the priests and the ark of the covenant from their station in Jordan is made the subject of a distinct section,...
Joshua 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Nothing could be more demonstrative of the miraculous holding of the waters, than the sudden return of the flood, when the purpose, for which the Lord held those waters in the hollow of his hand, was...
Joshua 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony ,.... In all places before, in this history, the ark is called the ark of the covenant, here the ark of the testimony, which signifies the same...
Joshua 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. Ver. 16. Command the priests. ] They would not stir out of their station till God called them off. It is go...
Joshua 4:16 - 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 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the L ORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses comma...
Joshua 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For being now in the middle, and lowest, and deepest place of the river, (of which See Poole on " Joshua 3:17 " ,) they are most properly said to ascend or go up to the land; which word is thrice us...
Joshua 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And YHWH spoke to Joshua, saying, “Command the priests who bear the Ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.” ' Having described the exit from Jordan of the Ark in verse 11 the wr...
Joshua 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES. Joshua 4:12 . Before the children of Israel] The usual order of marching was thus broken, that their promise, given in Numbers 32:17 , might be faithfully observed. Joshua 4:...
Joshua 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - 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 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Stones Pitched in Gilgal
Joshua 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Out of Jordan — For being now in the middle, and deepest place of the river, they are most properly said to go up to the land.

Joshua 4:16 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 4:16 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 4:16 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 4:16 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 4:16 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 4:16 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 4:16 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:16 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 4:16 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 4:16 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 4:16 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 4:16 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 4:16 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes