Joshua 4:20

took out. Compare verses: Joshua 4:8; Joshua 4:9.

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Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

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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...
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 fo...
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. Proba...
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 sec...
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...
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...
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 tel...
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 div...
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...
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

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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 brou...
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 .
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...
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 carr...
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,...
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 ben...
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...
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 c...
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 ston...
The Biblical Illustrator

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The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Stones Pitched in Gilgal
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan did Joshua pitch, set up for a memorial, in Gilgal.
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

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

²⁰ And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 4:20

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 4:20