Acts 16:23; Acts 16:35-39; Daniel 3:26; Genesis 8:16-18
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...
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
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...
Joshua therefore commanded the priests ,.... In obedience to the Lord, and sent them an order: saying ; as follows: come ye up out of Jordan ; f...
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. Ver. 17. Come ye up out of Jordan. ] Now that all the people are in safe...
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...
The priests staid contentedly in the river, till God by Joshua called them out.
‘ Joshua therefore commanded the priests saying, “You, come up out of Jordan.” ' The emphasis is on the fact that Joshua did precisely what YHWH...
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
Joshua, therefore, commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.
The priests — Who stayed contentedly in the river, 'till God by Joshua called them out.
17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan.