Joshua 4:9

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Summary

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.

Set up twelve

And they are there

General references

Joshua 3:12

Bible References

Set up twelve

Now the Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandment which I have written for their instruction.”

The stones shall be according to the names of the sons of Israel: twelve, according to their names; they shall be like the engravings of a seal, each according to his name for the twelve tribes.

Elijah took twelve stones according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel shall be your name.”

Great are the works of the Lord;

They are

studied by all who delight in them.

And they are there

So he called it Shibah; therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

And He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor; but no man knows his burial place to this day.

The man went into the land of the Hittites and built a city and named it Luz which is its name to this day.

So it has been from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel to this day.

and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have been aliens there until this day).

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles of the ark could be seen in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen outside; and they are there to this day.

For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood to this day.

And they took the money and did as they had been instructed; and this story was widely spread among the Jews, and is to this day.

General references

Now then, take for yourselves twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.