Thematic Bible: Sometimes of a heap of stones

And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.

Verse Concepts

Stones As MonumentsTwelve Things

In The Jordan

And the Israelites did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, according to the number of the tribes of the Israelites, as the Lord told Joshua, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there. And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan in the place where the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day.