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Joshua 4:20
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Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan,
Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Yarden, did Yehoshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
They carried with them the twelve rocks taken from the Jordan, and Joshua set them up at Gilgal.
Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
As for those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set them up at Gilgal.
Also the twelue stones, which they tooke out of Iorden, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
Those twelve stones which they took out of the Yarden, Y'hoshua piled up at Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they had taken out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
They carried with them the twelve rocks that they had taken from the Jordan River, and Joshua set them up at Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan. Joshua set up at Gilgal.
There Joshua set up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan.
And the twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan were raised up in Gilgal by Joshua.
And ye twolue stones which they had taken out of Iordane, dyd Iosua set vp at Gilgall,
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal.
And the twelue stones whiche they toke out of Iordane, dyd Iosuah pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelue stones which they tooke out of Iordan, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.
And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan, in Galgala,
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
Also Josue puttide in Galgalis the twelue stonys, whiche thei hadden take fro the trow of Jordan.
and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, hath Joshua raised up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
Those twelve stones, which they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,
And, these twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up, in Gilgal.
And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
Those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
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Joshua 4:3, Joshua 4:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:46 - Gather Exodus 24:4 - according Joshua 4:9 - and they are there Joshua 24:26 - set it Judges 3:19 - quarries 1 Samuel 7:12 - took a stone 1 Kings 18:31 - twelve stones Isaiah 19:20 - for a
Cross-References
Later she had another son and named him Abel. Abel became a sheep farmer, but Cain farmed the land.
and Abel also gave an offering to the Lord . He killed the first-born lamb from one of his sheep and gave the Lord the best parts of it. The Lord was pleased with Abel and his offering,
but not with Cain and his offering. This made Cain so angry that he could not hide his feelings.
Afterwards the Lord asked Cain, "Where is Abel?" "How should I know?" he answered. "Am I supposed to look after my brother?"
Then the Lord said: Why have you done this terrible thing? You killed your own brother, and his blood flowed onto the ground. Now his blood is calling out for me to punish you.
And so, I'll put you under a curse. Because you killed Abel and made his blood run out on the ground, you will never be able to farm the land again.
If you try to farm the land, it won't produce anything for you. From now on, you'll be without a home, and you'll spend the rest of your life wandering from place to place.
As Jacob and Esau grew older, Esau liked the outdoors and became a good hunter, while Jacob settled down and became a shepherd.
Your father is the devil, and you do exactly what he wants. He has always been a murderer and a liar. There is nothing truthful about him. He speaks on his own, and everything he says is a lie. Not only is he a liar himself, but he is also the father of all lies.
Because Abraham had faith, he lived as a stranger in the promised land. He lived there in a tent, and so did Isaac and Jacob, who were later given the same promise.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan,.... The twelve men who were sent there for that purpose, and took them from thence, and brought them hither, Joshua 4:3;
did Joshua pitch in Gilgal; set them in rows, or one upon another, and made a pillar of them commemorative of their passage over Jordan into the land of Canaan: according to Josephus n, he made an altar of these stones; and Ben Gersom is of opinion, that they were placed in the sanctuary by the ark, though not in it; which yet was the sentiment of Tertullian o, but very improbable; since that ark was not capable of such a number of large stones; and it must be a very large ark or chest, if one could be supposed to be made on purpose for them; but it is most likely they were erected in form of a pillar or statue, in memory of this wonderful event, the passage of Israel over Jordan, see Joshua 4:7; they may be considered as emblems of the twelve apostles of Christ, and their ministrations and writings; their number agrees, and so does the time of their appointment to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel, which was after the resurrection of Christ, typified by the passage of Joshua over Jordan, and out of it; the name of one of them, and he a principal one, was Peter or Cephas, which signifies a stone; and all of them in a spiritual sense were lively stones, chosen and selected from others, and called by grace, and were very probably most, if not all of them, baptized in this very place, Bethabara, from whence these stones were taken; and were like them unpolished, as to external qualifications, not having an education, and being illiterate, but wonderfully fitted by Christ for his service; and were not only pillars, as James, Cephas, and John, but in some sense foundation stones; as they were the instruments of laying Christ ministerially, as the foundation of salvation, and of preaching the fundamental truths of the Gospel, in which they were constant and immovable; and their ministry and writings, their Gospels and epistles, are so many memorials of what Christ, our antitypical Joshua, has done for us in passing over Jordan's river, or through death; finishing thereby transgression and sin, obtaining peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation, opening the way to the heavenly Canaan, abolishing death, and bringing life and immortality to light.
n Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 4.) o Contr. Marcion. l. 4. c. 13.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 4:20. Those twelve stones — It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected of some considerable height, and then the twelve stones placed on the top of it; and that this was the case both in Jordan and in Gilgal: for twelve such stones as a man could carry a considerable way on his shoulder, see Joshua 4:5, could scarcely have made any observable altar, or pillar of memorial: but erected on a high base of mason-work they would be very conspicuous, and thus properly answer the end for which God ordered them to be set up.
