Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
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Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
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Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
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then ye shall let your children know, saying: Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Cross-references (8)
Passages linked to Joshua 4:22 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Joshua 3:17 The priests who bore the ark of Yahweh’s covenant stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the nation had passed completely over the Jordan.
- Isaiah 51:10 Isn’t it you who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep; who made the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?
- Exodus 14:29 But the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea, and the waters were a wall to them on their right hand, and on their left.
- Exodus 15:19 For the horses of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and Yahweh brought back the waters of the sea on them; but the children of Israel walked on dry land in the middle of the sea.
- Psalms 66:5-6 Come, and see God’s deeds— awesome work on behalf of the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land. They went through the river on foot. There, we rejoiced in him.
- Isaiah 11:15-16 Yahweh will utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his scorching wind he will wave his hand over the River, and will split it into seven streams, and cause men to march over in sandals. There will be a highway for the remnant that is left of his people from Assyria, like there was for Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.
- Isaiah 44:27 who says to the deep, ‘Be dry,’ and ‘I will dry up your rivers;’
- Revelation 16:12 The sixth poured out his bowl on the great river, the Euphrates. Its water was dried up, that the way might be prepared for the kings that come from the sunrise.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Jos 4:22 Then ye shall let your children know,…
Jos 4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Ver. 22. See Jos 4:6-7.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain Then ye shall let your children know,.... The meaning…
Then ye shall let your children know,.... The meaning of the erection of these stones, acquaint them with the whole history, the meaning of which they are designed to perpetuate:
saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land; and if they should ask how that could possibly be done, or if they did not, they were to inform them by what means it was brought about, as follows.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 22. Then ye shall let your children know]…
Verse 22. Then ye shall let your children know] The necessity of an early religious education is inculcated through the whole oracles of God. The parents who neglect it have an awful account to give to the Judge of quick and dead.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Jos 4:22. Ye shall let your children know —…
Jos 4:22. Ye shall let your children know — We may learn from the injunction given here, and on many other occasions, that it is our indispensable duty to make our children well acquainted with the historical as well as doctrinal truths of religion, from the earliest accounts we have of them in the Holy Scriptures; that by this means a foundation may be laid for their faith, and they may be trained up in the knowledge of God, and of what he has declared to men, and done for them; that from hence they may be led both to love and fear him, and to live to his glory.
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 General Information:
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Joshua continues to remind the people the purpose of the pile of stones.
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Tell your children
It was for Israel to teach their children of God's miracles so that they would honor Yahweh forever.
the hand of Yahweh is mighty
This refers to the power of Yahweh being strong. AT: "Yahweh is mighty" (See: Metonymy)
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Israel
Jordan River
Yahweh
God
Sea of Reeds
people group
eternity
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