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Joshua 4:9-19

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9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, 1in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood; and they are there to this day.
10 For the priests bearing the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to tell the people, according to all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people passed over in haste.
11 And when all the people had finished passing over, the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over before the people.
12 The sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2passed over armed before the people of Israel, as Moses had told them.
13 About 40,000 ready for war passed over before the LORD for battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 On that day the LORD 3exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they stood in awe of him just as they had stood in awe of Moses, all the days of his life.
15 And the LORD said to Joshua,
16 "Command the priests bearing 4the ark of the testimony to come up out of the Jordan."
17 So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up out of the Jordan."
18 And when the priests bearing the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up from the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up on dry ground, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and overflowed all its banks, 5as before.
19 The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and they encamped at 6Gilgal on the east border of Jericho.
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Joshua 4:9-19 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 4

This chapter relates an order, that is men, should take twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, and carry them to the first place they lodged at as a memorial of their passage over it, Jos 4:1-8; and how Joshua set up twelve other stones in the river itself, Jos 4:9; and how many of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, went before the Israelites when they passed over, Jos 4:10-14; which being done, the priests were ordered to come out of Jordan, when the waters returned to their place, Jos 4:15-18; The time when this miracle was wrought is observed, Jos 4:19; and an account is given of Joshua's pitching the twelve stones taken out of Jordan in Gilgal, and the use they were to be of in future time, Jos 4:20-24.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 6

  • 1. ver. 3
  • 2. Joshua 6:7, 9, 13; Numbers 32:20, 21, 27
  • 3. See Joshua 3:7
  • 4. Ex. 25:16, 21, 22
  • 5. Joshua 3:15
  • 6. Joshua 5:9
The English Standard Version is published with the permission of Good News Publishers.