Verse 9

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.

Referenced Verses

  • 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Samuel took a stone and placed it between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying,“Up to here the LORD has helped us.”
  • 1 Sam 30:25 : 25 From that time onward it was a binding ordinance for Israel, right up to the present time.
  • 2 Sam 4:3 : 3 for the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have remained there as resident foreigners until the present time.)
  • 1 Kgs 18:31 : 31 Then Elijah took twelve stones, corresponding to the number of tribes that descended from Jacob, to whom the LORD’s message had come,“Israel will be your name.”
  • 2 Chr 5:9 : 9 The poles were so long their ends extending out from the ark were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but they could not be seen from beyond that point. They have remained there to this very day.
  • Ps 111:2-4 : 2 The LORD’s deeds are great, eagerly awaited by all who desire them. 3 His work is majestic and glorious, and his faithfulness endures forever. 4 He does amazing things that will be remembered; the LORD is merciful and compassionate.
  • Gen 26:33 : 33 So he named it Shibah; that is why the name of the city has been Beer Sheba to this day.
  • Gen 28:18 : 18 Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.
  • Exod 24:12 : 12 The LORD said to Moses,“Come up to me on the mountain and remain there, and I will give you the stone tablets with the law and the commandments that I have written, so that you may teach them.”
  • Exod 28:21 : 21 The stones are to be for the names of the sons of Israel, twelve, according to the number of their names. Each name according to the twelve tribes is to be like the engravings of a seal.
  • Deut 34:6 : 6 He buried him in the valley in the land of Moab near Beth Peor, but no one knows his exact burial place to this very day.
  • Josh 24:26 : 26 Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the LORD’s shrine.
  • Judg 1:26 : 26 He moved to Hittite country and built a city. He named it Luz, and it has kept that name to this very day.