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

And Jehovah said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee the tables of stone, and the law and the commandment, which I have written, that thou mayest teach them.

And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of Jehovah came, saying, Israel shall be thy name.

The works of Jehovah are great, Sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

And they are there

And he called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba unto this day.

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz, which is the name thereof unto this day.

And it was so from that day forward, that he made it a statute and an ordinance for Israel unto this day.

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

And the staves were so long that the ends of the staves were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without: and there it is unto this day.

Wherefore that field was called, the field of blood, unto this day.

So they took the money, and did as they were taught: and this saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continueth until this day.

General references

Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.