Joshua 4:22 KJV — MannaFest

Joshua 4:22

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

KJV

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ASV

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

WEB

you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

YLT

then ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;

DBT

then ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan;

About this book

Old Testament

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Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.

Author: Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date: Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period

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Cross-references

9 verses on the floor

Joshua 3:17
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
Isaiah 51:10
Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?
Isaiah 44:27
That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:
Isaiah 11:15–16
And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.
Exodus 14:29
But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

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9 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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

According to these orders the thing was done. Twelve stones were taken up out of the midst of Jordan, and carried in the sight of the people to the place where they had their head-quarters that night,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The pile was designed to serve a double purpose--that of impressing the heathen with a sense of the omnipotence of God, while at the same time it would teach an important lesson in religion to the young and rising Israelites in after ages.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

They must let their children know that Jordan was driven back before Israel, who went through it upon dry land, and that this was the very place where they passed over.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JOS 4:22JOS 3:17 EXO 14:22
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOS 4:22JOS 3:17 EXO 14:29
JOS 4:22JOS 3:17 PSA 66:6
JOS 4:22ISA 51:10 ISA 43:16
JOS 4:22JOS 3:17 ISA 25:8
JOS 4:22JOS 3:17 2KI 2:8
JOS 4:22ISA 51:10 ISA 50:2
JOS 4:22ISA 51:10 ISA 63:11-12

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