Joshua 4:21 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? ”

Joshua 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
Joshua 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

We meet with many passages in the Bible, of the Lord's directing his people to gratify the enquiry of their children in all questions of divine things. And what can be more sweet or more suited to th...
Joshua 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying ,.... At the same time he set up the stones: when you children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying , What [mean] these stones ? Josh...
Joshua 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones? Ver. 21. See Joshua 4:6,7 .
Joshua 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Joshua 4:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, “When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, ‘What mean these stones?' Then you shall let your children know saying, ‘Israe...
Joshua 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - 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 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Stones Pitched in Gilgal
Joshua 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 4:6 ; Psalms 105:2-5 ; Psalms 145:4-7

Joshua 4:21 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Joshua 4:21 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 4:21 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 4:21 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 4:21 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 4:21 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 4:21 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 4:21 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 4:21 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 4:21 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 4:21 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 4:21 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 4:21 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 4:21 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge