Joshua 4:22

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

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 those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

21 And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying, "When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, `What mean these stones?'

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

23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you until ye had passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up from before us until we had gone over,

24 that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty, that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever."