Josué 4:19

19 El pueblo subió del Jordán el día diez del mes primero y acamparon en Gilgal al lado oriental de Jericó.

Josué 4:19 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 4:19

And the people came up out of Jordan
The channel of it, to the shore:

on the tenth [day] of the first month;
the month Nisan or Abib, which from the time of Israel's coming out of Egypt was appointed the first month of the year, ( Exodus 12:2 ) ; on the fifteenth of which month they came out of Egypt, having kept the passover on the fourteenth at even; so that their coming out of Egypt, to their entrance into Canaan, was just forty years, wanting five days. This tenth day was the day in which the passover was taken from the flock, and kept till the fourteenth, on which day the children of Israel kept their first passover in Canaan, in the plains of Jericho, ( Joshua 5:10 ) ;

and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho;
it has its name here by anticipation, for it was so named after this for a reason given, ( Joshua 5:9 ) ; It was, according to Josephus ^F12, ten furlongs, or a mile and a quarter, from Jericho. Jerom says ^F13, there was shown in his time a desert place two miles from Jericho, had in wonderful esteem by men of that country, which he suggests was this place; as it was had in great veneration, both by the worshippers of the true God, and by idolaters, for many ages.

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FOOTNOTES:

F12 Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 4.)
F13 De loc. Heb. fol. 91. M.

Josué 4:19 In-Context

17 Y Josué mandó a los sacerdotes, diciendo: Subid del Jordán.

18 Y sucedió que cuando los sacerdotes que llevaban el arca del pacto del SEÑOR subieron de en medio del Jordán, y las plantas de los pies de los sacerdotes salieron a tierra seca, las aguas del Jordán volvieron a su lugar y corrieron sobre todas sus riberas como antes.

19 El pueblo subió del Jordán el día diez del mes primero y acamparon en Gilgal al lado oriental de Jericó.

20 Y aquellas doce piedras que habían sacado del Jordán, Josué las erigió en Gilgal.

21 Y habló a los hijos de Israel, diciendo: Cuando vuestros hijos pregunten a sus padres el día de mañana, diciendo: "¿Qué significan estas piedras?",