Joshua 4:1 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

JOSHUA CHAPTER 4 God commands them to carry twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan; Joshua orders it; the people perform, Joshua 4:1-8. Twelve other stones set up for a memorial in the midst of Jordan, Joshua 4:9. The people pass over: the order they observe, Joshua 4:10-13. God magnifies Joshua, Joshua 4:14. The priests with the ark are commanded to come up out of Jordan, Joshua 4:15-17. The waters return, Joshua 4:18. The time of this passage, Joshua 4:19. Twelve stones set up in Gilgal; to what purpose declared, Joshua 4:20-24. This was commanded before, Joshua 3:12, and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution.

Joshua 4:1

1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,