Joshua 4:20 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 4:20

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Those twelve stones - It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected of some considerable height, and then the twelve stones placed on the top of it; and that this was the case both in Jordan and in Gilgal: for twelve such stones as a man could carry a considerable way on his shoulder, see Jos 4:5, could scarcely have made any observable altar, or pillar of memorial: but erected on a high base of mason-work they would be very conspicuous, and thus properly answer the end for which God ordered them to be set up.

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וְאֵת֩	ve.'Et	and <obj.>	H853 →
שְׁתֵּ֨ים	she.Teim	two [plus]	H8147 →
עֶשְׂרֵ֤ה	'es.Reh	ten	H6240 →
הָֽאֲבָנִים֙	ha.'a.va.Nim	the stones	H68 →
הָאֵ֔לֶּה	ha.'E.leh	<the> these	H428 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
לָקְח֖וּ	la.ke.Chu	they had taken	H3947 →
מִן־	min-	from	H4480 →
הַיַּרְדֵּ֑ן	hai.yar.Den	the Jordan	H3383 →
הֵקִ֥ים	he.Kim	he set up	H6965 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
בַּגִּלְגָּֽל׃	ba.gil.Gal	at <the> Gilgal	H1537 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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…
leads to
- Joshua 4:19–20
  On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
- Joshua 4:8
  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…
- Joshua 3:13
  When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will…
- Psalms 103:2
  Bless the LORD, O my soul, and do not forget all His kind deeds—
- Psalms 11:4
  The LORD is in His holy temple; the LORD is on His heavenly throne. His eyes are watching closely; they examine the sons of men.
Through
Joshua 4:8
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…
leads to
- Joshua 4:2–5
  “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,
- Joshua 1:16–18
  So they answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.

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