Joshua 4:1

Spake — This was commanded before, Joshua 3:12, and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution.

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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

were clean passed over . were finished passing over. the LORD. Hebrew. Jehovah . App-4. spake. See note on Joshua 1:1 .
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

l. And it came to pass, etc The brief and obscure allusion previously made with regard to the twelve men he now explains more at length. He...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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

CONTENTS The people having all passed over Jordan, the priests are commanded to come up out of Jordan with the ark of God, and pass over also. A mem...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan ,.... As related, Joshua 3:17 ; that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying :...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, Ver. 1. And it came to pass, when...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Lord spake unto Joshua This was commanded before, ( Joshua 3:12 ,) and is here repeated with enlargement, as being now to be put in execution....
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

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 . Twe...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 4. Setting Up A Memorial. This chapter describes how God commanded that the men of Israel should take twelve stones out of the middle of J...
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

And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Stones Taken from the Midst of the River Bed
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Deuteronomy 27:2 ; Joshua 3:17

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

Related Commentaries of Joshua 4:1

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 4:1