Joshua 4:12

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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 Is...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Reuben. Compare Numbers 32:27 . Compare Joshua 1:12 . armed . by fives. Compare Joshua 6:7 ; Joshua 6:9 . These formed the van.
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

12. And the children of Reuben, etc He makes mention of the expedition of the two tribes and half tribe, as they did not set out to engage i...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 12, 13. And the children of Reuben, &c.— In conformity to their engagement, ( Numbers 32:20 ; Numbers 21:27 and chap. Joshua 1:13 ....
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses sp...
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...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

As Moses spake ] see Numbers 32:20 .
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

It is pleasant to see the forwardness of those tribes to lead the people on to victory. They had obtained their settlement. And who so proper to stir...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh ,.... Who were settled on the other side Jordan, in the countrie...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The children of Reuben passed over armed As they had engaged to do, Numbers 32:20-27 , and Joshua 1:13 . About forty thousand prepared for war...
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

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...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

No text from Poole on this verse.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses sp...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
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

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...
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 pec...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unt...

¹² And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:

Related Commentaries of Joshua 4:12

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

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

Joshua 4:12