Joshua 4:8

Webster's Bible (1833)

The children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

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  • Josh 1:16-18 : 16 They answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go. 17 According as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you: only Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses. 18 Whoever he be who shall rebel against your commandment, and shall not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good courage.
  • Josh 4:2-5 : 2 Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3 and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 5 and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;
  • Josh 4:20 : 20 Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

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  • Josh 4:9-12
    4 verses
    89%

    9Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

    10For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over.

    11It happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the priests, in the presence of the people.

    12The children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them:

  • Josh 4:1-7
    7 verses
    88%

    1It happened, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

    2Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

    3and command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.

    4Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

    5and Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

    6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones?

    7then you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.

  • Josh 4:15-23
    9 verses
    83%

    15Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

    16Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan.

    17Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan.

    18It happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and went over all its banks, as before.

    19The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.

    20Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

    21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

    22Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

    23For Yahweh your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;

  • Josh 3:11-17
    7 verses
    77%

    11Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan.

    12Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.

    13It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.

    14It happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people;

    15and when those who bore the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),

    16that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

    17The priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.

  • 31Elijah 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.

  • 2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

  • Josh 3:8-9
    2 verses
    76%

    8You shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.

    9Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God.

  • 1Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over.

  • 23They took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel; and they laid them down before Yahweh.

  • Josh 8:30-32
    3 verses
    74%

    30Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

    31as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

    32He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of Israel.

  • 5As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the land.

  • 4It shall be, when you are passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

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    26Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

    27Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.

  • 7He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.

  • 14The stones were 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, for the twelve tribes.

  • 12To the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying,

  • 27That day Joshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • 1It happened, when all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.

  • 1The children of Israel traveled, and encamped in the plains of Moab beyond the Jordan at Jericho.

  • 10The children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.

  • 54Thus the children of Israel did. According to all that Yahweh commanded Moses, so they did.

  • 28The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.