No text from Poole on this verse.
The passage of the priests to the further bank had been already referred to, Joshua 4:11 ; but the writer, in observance of his general plan (comp...
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 Is...
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Ver. 15-18. And the Lord spake unto Joshua, &c.— Before the people advanced into the country, Joshua had commanded the priests, who bare th...
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
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...
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...
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...
Nothing could be more demonstrative of the miraculous holding of the waters, than the sudden return of the flood, when the purpose, for which the Lor...
And the Lord spake unto Joshua ,.... When all the people had passed over jordan: saying ; as follows.
And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, Ver. 15. And the Lord spake unto Joshua. ] See Joshua 1:1 .
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...
10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the L ORD commanded Joshua to speak...
‘ And YHWH spoke to Joshua, saying, “Command the priests who bear the Ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.” ' Having described...
CRITICAL NOTES. Joshua 4:12 . Before the children of Israel] The usual order of marching was thus broken, that their promise, given in Numbers 3...
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...
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 decl...
EXPOSITION THE MEMORIAL .— Joshua 4:2 Twelve stones. The commemoration of events by the setting up of huge stones was by no means pec...
The Stones Pitched in Gilgal
And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,