Joshua 4:19-20

19 Now the people came up from the Jordan on the ¹tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.

20 ²Those twelve * stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up ³at Gilgal.

Joshua 4:19-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. Deuteronomy 1:3
• 2. Joshua 4:8
• 3. Joshua 4:3, 8

Footnotes

• [a]. Lit "these"