Joshua 4:6

Acts 2:39; Deuteronomy 11:19; Deuteronomy 6:20; Deuteronomy 6:21; Exodus 12:14; Exodus 12:26; Exodus 13:14; Exodus 13:9; Exodus 31:13; Ezekiel 20:12; Isaiah 38:19; Isaiah 55:13; Joshua 22:27; Joshua 4:21; Numbers 16:38; Psalms 44:1; Psalms 71:18; Psalms 78:3-8

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your (c) children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones? (c) Go...
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

their fathers. These words are read in some codices, with four early printed editions, as in Joshua 4:21 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? This may be...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? That this...
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...
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

No doubt the choice of twelve stones was intended to manifest, that all the twelve tribes of Israel were equally interested in the memorial. And Jesu...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

That this may be a sign among you ,.... A commemorative one: [that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come ; or "tomorrow" g and s...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones? Ver. 6....
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

That this may be a sign among you A monument or memorial of this day's work. Had Joshua given orders to prepare for erecting this memorial of himse...
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

The Passage over the Jordan. B. C. 1451. ...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

A sign; a monument or memorial of this day's work.
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

“That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come saying, ‘What do you mean by these stones?' Then you shall say to the...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN, AND ITS MEMORIAL CRITICAL NOTES. Joshua 4:2 . Take you twelve men] These had been already chosen for the work. The...
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 Taken from the Midst of the River Bed
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

that this may be a sign among you, serve for a memorial, a monument, in their midst, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, sayi...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

A sign — A monument or memorial of this day's work.

⁶ That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?

Related Commentaries of Joshua 4:6

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole 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

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 4:6