“ Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, ”
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 tw...
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...
men. PI of 'ish or 'enosh. See App-14. man. Hebrew. 'lsh . App-14.
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, Take you twelve men - From Joshua 3:12 , it appears that the twelve men had been before appointed, one taken out of each of the twelv...
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 rep...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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. Isai...
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 i...
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 bod...
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 Gilga...
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...
The Passage over the Jordan. B. C. 1451. 1 And it came to pass, when all the people were...
For the greater evidence and certainty, and the more effectual spreading of the report of this marvellous work among all the tribes.
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...
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 4:2 . 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...
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...
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...
The Stones Taken from the Midst of the River Bed
1 Kings 18:31 ; Deuteronomy 1:23 ; Joshua 3:12 ; Matthew 10:15 ; Numbers 1:4-15 ; Numbers 13:2 ; Numbers 34:18
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.