Joshua 4:9 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

KJV

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Another set of stones is intended than that before mentioned. The one set was erected by the command of God at the spot where they passed the night Jos 4:3; the other by Joshua on the spot where the priests’ feet rested while they bore up the ark during the passage of the people. This spot was near, or perhaps on, the eastern brink (compare Jos 3:8).

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Original language & word study

19 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וּשְׁתֵּ֧ים	u.she.Teim	and two [plus]	H8147 →
עֶשְׂרֵ֣ה	'es.Reh	ten	H6240 →
אֲבָנִ֗ים	'a.va.Nim	stones	H68 →
הֵקִ֣ים	he.Kim	he set up	H6965 →
יְהוֹשֻׁעַ֮	ye.ho.shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
בְּת֣וֹךְ	be.Tokh	in [the] middle of	H8432 →
הַיַּרְדֵּן֒	hai.yar.Den	the Jordan	H3383 →
תַּ֗חַת	Ta.chat	in	H8478 →
מַצַּב֙	ma.Tzav	[the] standing-place of	H4673 →
רַגְלֵ֣י	rag.Lei	[the] feet of	H7272 →
הַכֹּהֲנִ֔ים	ha.ko.ha.Nim	the priests	H3548 →
נֹשְׂאֵ֖י	no.se.'Ei	[the] bearers of	H5375 →
אֲר֣וֹן	'a.Ron	[the] ark of	H727 →
הַבְּרִ֑ית	ha.be.Rit	the covenant	H1285 →
וַיִּ֣הְיוּ	vai.Yih.yu	and they have been	H1961 →
שָׁ֔ם	Sham	there	H8033 →
עַ֖ד	'ad	until	H5704 →
הַיּ֥וֹם	hai.Yom	the day	H3117 →
הַזֶּֽה׃	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

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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
1 Samuel 7:12
Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”
leads to
- 2 Corinthians 1:10
  He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and He will deliver us. In Him we have placed our hope that He will yet again deliver us,
- Acts 26:22
  But I have had God’s help to this day, and I stand here to testify to small and great alike. I am saying nothing beyond what the prophets and Moses said would happen:
- Genesis 22:14
  And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- Genesis 35:14
  So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him—a stone marker—and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- 1 Samuel 5:1
  After the Philistines had captured the ark of God, they took it from Ebenezer to Ashdod,
Through
Exodus 28:21
The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.
leads to
- Revelation 21:12
  The city had a great and high wall with twelve gates inscribed with the names of the twelve tribes of Israel, and twelve angels at the gates.
- Revelation 7:4–8
  And I heard the number of those who were sealed, 144,000 from all the tribes of Israel:
Through
2 Chronicles 5:9
The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.
leads to
- 1 Kings 8:8–9
  The poles extended far enough that their ends were visible from the Holy Place in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.