Joshua 4

¹And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Deut 27:2Josh 3:17

²Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:121 Kgs 18:31Deut 1:23Matt 10:1-5Num 1:4-15Num 13:2Num 34:18

³And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 4:19-20Josh 3:13Josh 4:81 Sam 7:12Deut 27:1-26Gen 28:22Josh 24:27Luke 19:40Ps 103:2Ps 11:4

⁴Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 4:2Mark 3:14-19

⁵And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

⁶That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 13:14Josh 4:21Ps 44:1Deut 6:20-21Deut 11:19Josh 22:27Exod 12:26-27Isa 38:19Isa 55:13Ps 71:18

⁷Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 12:14Exod 28:12Num 16:40Ps 111:4Josh 3:13-161 Cor 11:24Isa 66:3Josh 4:6Exod 30:16

⁸And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:16-18Josh 4:2-5Josh 4:20

⁹And 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:1 Sam 7:121 Sam 30:252 Chr 5:92 Sam 4:3Deut 34:6Exod 24:12Exod 28:21Gen 26:33Gen 28:18Josh 24:26

¹⁰For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:132 Cor 6:2Deut 31:9Eccl 9:10Exod 12:39Heb 3:7-8Isa 28:16Josh 3:16-17Num 27:21-23Prov 27:1

¹¹And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:8Josh 3:17Josh 4:18

¹²And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 1:14Num 32:20-32

¹³About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Eph 6:112 Kgs 25:5Jer 39:5Jer 52:8Josh 5:10

¹⁴On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:72 Chr 30:121 Kgs 3:28Josh 1:16-18Rom 13:41 Sam 12:18Exod 14:31Prov 24:211 Cor 10:2

¹⁵And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying, Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI

¹⁶Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 25:16-22Josh 3:3-6Rev 11:19

¹⁷Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Gen 8:16-18Acts 16:23Acts 16:35-39Dan 3:26

¹⁸And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests’ feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:151 Chr 12:15Exod 14:26-28Isa 8:8Josh 3:13

¹⁹And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 5:9Mic 6:51 Sam 11:14-151 Sam 15:33Amos 4:4Amos 5:5Exod 12:2-3Josh 10:43Josh 10:6Josh 15:7

²⁰And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 4:3Josh 4:8

²¹And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 4:6Ps 145:4-7Ps 105:2-5

²²Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Josh 3:17Isa 51:10Exod 14:29Exod 15:19Isa 11:15-16Isa 44:27Ps 66:5-6Rev 16:12

²³For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Exod 14:21Isa 43:16Isa 63:12-14Neh 9:11Ps 77:16-19Ps 78:13

²⁴That 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. Copy Many Bible Versions Ask AI Cross Refs:Ps 106:81 Kgs 8:42-43Ps 89:131 Chr 29:122 Kgs 19:19Exod 14:31Exod 15:16Deut 6:21 Sam 17:462 Kgs 5:15