That this may be a sign among you A monument or memorial of this day's work. Had Joshua given orders to prepare for erecting this memorial of himself, it might have looked like a design to perpetuate his own name and honour; but as it was done by the divine direction, it could be viewed in no other light than as a monument raised to the honour and glory of God, who hath “so done his marvellous works, that they ought to be had in everlasting remembrance,” and means devised to preserve among men the memory of them.
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Joshua 4:6
6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?