Joshua 4:9

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

The Lord said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay there so that I may give you the stone tablets with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

The 12 stones are to correspond to the names of Israel’s sons. Each stone must be engraved like a seal, with one of the names of the 12 tribes.

Elijah took 12 stones—according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the Lord had come, saying, “Israel will be your name”—

The Lord’s works are great,
studied by all who delight in them.

And they are there

He called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba

to this day.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows where his grave is.

Then the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a town, and named it Luz. That is its name to this day.

And it has been so from that day forward. David established this policy as a law and an ordinance for Israel and it continues to this very day.

and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and still live there as foreigners to this very day.

The poles were so long that their ends were seen from the holy place

in front of the inner sanctuary, but they were not seen from outside; they are there to this very day.

Therefore that field has been called “Blood Field” to this day.

So they took the money and did as they were instructed. And this story has been spread among Jewish people to this day.

General references

Now choose 12 men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.