Joshua 4:20 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. ”

Joshua 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

took out. Compare verses: Joshua 4:8 ; Joshua 4:9 .
Joshua 4:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

DISCOURSE: 245 THE PASSAGE OF JORDAN COMMEMORATED Joshua 4:20-24 . Those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, sayin...
Joshua 4:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Those twelve stones - It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected of some considerable height, and then...
Joshua 4:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 20. And those twelve stones—did Joshua pitch in Gilgal — Josephus relates the matter as if the Israelites had reared these stones in the form of an altar. It is more probable, that, in orde...
Joshua 4:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Those twelve stones ... did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Probably to render them more conspicuous, they might be...
Joshua 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(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 pa...
Joshua 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Who knows but that these very stones were remaining in the days of our Lord? And it is not improbable, but as all the words of Jesus were significant and full of grace, Jesus might point to them when...
Joshua 4:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

MEMORIAL STONES ‘Twelve stones in the midst of Jordan.’ ‘Twelve stones which they took out of Jordan.’ Joshua 4:9 ; Joshua 4:20 There were two sets of stones raised in commemoration of the...
Joshua 4:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan ,.... The twelve men who were sent there for that purpose, and took them from thence, and brought them hither, Joshua 4:3 ; did Joshua pitch...
Joshua 4:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Ver. 20. And those twelve. ] See Joshua 4:3 .
Joshua 4:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

In Gilgal Probably in order, like so many little pillars, to keep up the remembrance of this miraculous benefit. Gilgal was situate between Jordan and Jericho, and, according to Josephus, was ten f...
Joshua 4:20 - 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 4:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in tim...
Joshua 4:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Which most probably were placed severally and in order, like so many little pillars, which was most proper to keep remembrance of this miraculous benefit vouchsafed to this people.
Joshua 4:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.' This was in obedience to YHWH Who had told them that they must be set up at the place where they first lodged ( Jos...
Joshua 4:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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 wer...
Joshua 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - 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 4:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Stones Pitched in Gilgal
Joshua 4:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 4:3 ; Joshua 4:8
Joshua 4:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

In Gilgal — Probably in order, like so many little pillars, to keep up the remembrance of this miraculous benefit.

Joshua 4:20 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joshua 4:20 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Joshua 4:20 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 4:20 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 4:20 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 4:20 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:20 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 4:20 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 4:20 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 4:20 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 4:20 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 4:20 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes