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 the LORD said to Moses, Come up to me on the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayst teach them.

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

And 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 thy name:

The works of the LORD are great, sought out by all them that have pleasure in them.

And they are there

And he called it Shebah: therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

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

And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name of it Luz: which is its name to this day.

And it was so 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 sojourners there until this day.)

And they drew out the staffs of the ark, that the ends of the staffs were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen without. And there it is to this day.

Wherefore that field has been called, The field of blood, to this day.

So they took the money, and did as they were instructed: and this saying is commonly reported among the Jews until this day.

General references

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