Joshua 4:21

21 And he said to the {Israelites}, "When your children ask in the future {their parents}, '{What is the meaning of these stones}?'

Joshua 4:21 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 4:21

And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying
At the same time he set up the stones:

when you children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,
What [mean] these stones? (See Gill on Joshua 4:6).

Joshua 4:21 In-Context

19 And the people came up from the Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first month, and they camped in Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.

20 And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

21 And he said to the {Israelites}, "When your children ask in the future {their parents}, '{What is the meaning of these stones}?'

22 you will let your children know [by] saying, 'Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.'

23 For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had crossed, just as Yahweh your God did to the {Red Sea}, which he dried up before us until we had crossed over,

Footnotes

• [a]. Literally "sons/children of Israel"
• [b]. Literally "their fathers"
• [c]. Literally "What [are] these stones?"