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 wait there, that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and the commandment, which I have written for their instruction."

There shall be twelve stones with their names according to the names of the sons of Israel. They shall be like signets, each engraved with its 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 came, saying, "Israel shall be your name,"

Great are the works of the LORD, studied by all who delight in them.

And they are there

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 one knows the place of his burial to this day.

And the man went to the land of the Hittites and built a city and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.

And he made it a statute and a rule for Israel from that day forward to this day.

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

And the poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from outside. And they are there to this day.

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

So they took the money and did as they were directed. And this story has been spread among the Jews to this day.

General references

Now therefore take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, from each tribe a man.