Joshua 4:16

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.

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Arno Geneva Study Bible

Command the priests that bear the (g) ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. (g) Because the ark testified God's presence, and the t...
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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...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

16. Command the priests, etc Here it is shown more clearly how meekly and calmly the priests yielded implicit obedience to the divine comman...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, No JFB commentary on these verses.
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...
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Command the priests... that they come up out of Jordan. — Observe that the removal of the priests and the ark of the covenant from their station in...
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...
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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony ,.... In all places before, in this history, the ark is called the ark of the covenant, here...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. Ver. 16. Command the priests. ] They would not stir out o...
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

For being now in the middle, and lowest, and deepest place of the river, (of which See Poole on " Joshua 3:17 " ,) they are most properly said to as...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ 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...
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

Command the priests that bear the Ark of the Testimony that they come up out of Jordan, from the midst of the stream where they had been stationed du...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Out of Jordan — For being now in the middle, and deepest place of the river, they are most properly said to go up to the land.

¹⁶ Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 4:16

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole 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

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 4:16