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

Yahweh said to Moses, "Come up to me on the mountain, and stay here, and I will give you the tables of stone with the law and the commands that I have written, that you may teach them."

The stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, everyone according to his name, they shall 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 Yahweh came, saying, "Israel shall be your name."

Yahweh's works are great, pondered by all those who delight in them.

And they are there

He called it Shibah. Therefore the name of the city is Beersheba to this day.

He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth Peor: but no man knows of his tomb to this day.

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

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 lived as foreigners there until this day).

The poles were so long that the ends of the poles were seen from the ark before the oracle; but they were not seen outside: and there it is to this day.

Therefore that field was called "The Field of Blood" to this day.

So they took the money and did as they were told. This saying was spread abroad among the Jews, and continues until this day.

General references

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