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

And Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me [on] the mountain, and be there, and I will give you the tablets of stone and the law and the commandments that I have written to instruct them."

The stones will be according to the names of the {Israelites}, twelve according to their names, [with] seal engravings, each according to its name they will be 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 God came, saying, "Israel shall be your name."

The works of Yahweh [are] great, studied by all [who] delight [in] them.

And they are there

And he called it Sheba. Therefore the name of the city [is] Beersheba unto this day.

And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth Peor. But until this day no one knows his burial site.

And the man went [to] the land of the Hittites, and he built a city and named it Luz; this [is] its name to this day.

So from that day and beyond, he made it a rule and a regulation for Israel until this day.

The Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and they are resident aliens there until this day.

But the poles were [so] long that the ends of the poles from the ark were seen from before the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from the outside. And they are there until this day.

(For this reason that field has been called the Field of Blood until today.)

So they took the money [and] did as they were told, and spread abroad this report among the Jews until this very day.

General references

So then, take twelve men from the tribes of Israel, {one from each tribe}.