约书亚记 4:1

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

立石為憑據全國的人都完全過了約旦河以後，耶和華就吩咐約書亞說：

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
国 民 尽 都 过 了 约 但 河 ， 耶 和 华 就 对 约 书 亚 说 ：

Contextual Overview

¹ After all the people had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, ² "Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe. ³ Tell them to get twelve rocks from the middle of the river, from where the priests stood. Carry the rocks and put them down where you stay tonight." ⁴ So Joshua chose one man from each tribe. Then he called the twelve men together ⁵ and said to them, "Go out into the river where the Ark of the Lord your God is. Each of you bring back one rock, one for each tribe of Israel, and carry it on your shoulder. ⁶ They will be a sign among you. In the future your children will ask you, ‘What do these rocks mean?' ⁷ Tell them the water stopped flowing in the Jordan when the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord crossed the river. These rocks will always remind the Israelites of this." ⁸ So the Israelites obeyed Joshua and carried twelve rocks from the middle of the Jordan River, one rock for each of the twelve tribes of Israel, just as the Lord had commanded Joshua. They carried the rocks with them and put them down where they made their camp. ⁹ Joshua also put twelve rocks in the middle of the Jordan River where the priests had stood while carrying the Ark of the Agreement. These rocks are still there today.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

were clean passed: Joshua 3:17, Deuteronomy 27:2

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 12:10 - But when

Cross-References

Genesis 3:15
I will make you and the woman enemies to each other. Your descendants and her descendants will be enemies. One of her descendants will crush your head, and you will bite his heel."

Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."

Genesis 5:29
Lamech named his son Noah and said, "He will comfort us in our work, which comes from the ground the Lord has cursed."

Numbers 31:17
Kill all the Midianite boys, and kill all the Midianite women who have had sexual relations.

1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain who belonged to the Evil One and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? Because the things Cain did were evil, and the things his brother did were good.

Gill's Notes on the 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: as follows.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER IV

When the people are passed over, Joshua commands twelve men, one

taken out of each tribe, to take up a stone on his shoulder out

of the midst of the river, and carry it to the other side, to

be set up as a memorial of this miraculous passage, 1-7.

They do so, and set up the stones in the place where they encamp

the first night, 8, 9.

The priests stand in the river, till all the people are passed

over, 10, 11.

Of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

40,000 fighting men pass over with the other tribes, 12, 13.

Joshua is magnified in the sight of the people, and they fear

him as they did Moses, 14.

The priests are commanded to come up out of the river, which, on

their leaving it, immediately returns, and overflows its banks

as before, 15-18.

This miraculous passage takes place the tenth day of the first

month, 19.

The stones are set up in Gilgal, and Joshua teaches the people

what use they are to make of them, 20-24.

NOTES ON CHAP. IV