Joshua 4:22

22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

Joshua 4:22 in Other Translations

22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

22 then you shall let your children know, 'Israel passed over this Jordan on dry ground.'

22 Then you can tell them, ‘This is where the Israelites crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

22 tell your children this: 'Israel crossed over this Jordan on dry ground.'

22 you should tell your children, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'

Joshua 4:22 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 4:22

Then ye shall let your children know
The meaning of the erection of these stones, acquaint them with the whole history, the meaning of which they are designed to perpetuate:

saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land;
and if they should ask how that could possibly be done, or if they did not, they were to inform them by what means it was brought about, as follows.

Joshua 4:22 In-Context

20 And Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken out of the Jordan.

21 He said to the Israelites, “In the future when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’

22 tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

23 For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The LORD your God did to the Jordan what he had done to the Red Sea when he dried it up before us until we had crossed over.

24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is powerful and so that you might always fear the LORD your God.”

Cross References

• 1. S Exodus 14:22; Joshua 3:17