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Joshua 4:8

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Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

KJV

And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

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This verse in Joshua 4

Commentary

2 notes on this verse
Laid them down there - i. e. in Gilgal Jos 4:20. Spoken of as the doers of this, because it was done by the twelve who acted for them.

This site's exposition

children of Israel did so

on Joshua 4:8-9

Two piles are named, one carried out to the lodging place and one set up by Joshua in the middle of the river where the priests had stood. Barnes and Jamieson, Fausset and Brown read them as two separate monuments, and other writers take verse 9 as a fuller account of the same twelve stones, since the Hebrew carries either. The clause and they are there unto this day puts the writer at a time when the second pile could still be pointed at, which is one of the marks readers use in dating the book.

The words behind it

28 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיַּעֲשׂוּ־and they did

    vaiyaasu-H6213 →2628 times

  • כֵ֣ןthus

    khenH3651 →771 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] people of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֘לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֣רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • צִוָּ֣הhe had commanded

    tzivahH6680 →494 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁעַ֒Joshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • וַיִּשְׂא֡וּand they took up

    vaiyisuH5375 →656 times

  • שְׁתֵּֽי־two [plus]

    shetei-H8147 →768 times

  • עֶשְׂרֵ֨הten

    ʾesrehH6240 →338 times

  • אֲבָנִ֜יםstones

    ʾavanimH68 →273 times

  • מִתּ֣וֹךְfrom [the] middle of

    mitokhH8432 →418 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֗ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֨רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֤רhe had said

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֔עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • לְמִסְפַּ֖רto [the] number of

    lemisparH4557 →

  • שִׁבְטֵ֣י[the] tribes of

    shivteiH7626 →190 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֑לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • וַיַּעֲבִר֤וּםand they took over them

    vaiyaavirumH5674 →556 times

  • עִמָּם֙with them

    ʾimamH5973 →1050 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַמָּל֔וֹןthe lodging place

    hamalonH4411 →

  • וַיַּנִּח֖וּםand they set down them

    vaiyanichumH5117 →142 times

  • שָֽׁם׃there

    shamH8033 →834 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

4 in all, six open

The walk

1 stop

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Joshua 4:20

    And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 4:3

      and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend…

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
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This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible.

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