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Brenton's Septuagint
Joshua 4:20
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Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan,
Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Yarden, did Yehoshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones that they took from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
They carried with them the twelve rocks taken from the Jordan, and Joshua set them up at Gilgal.
Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
As for those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set them up at Gilgal.
Also the twelue stones, which they tooke out of Iorden, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
The men who had carried the twelve rocks from the Jordan brought them to Joshua, and they made them into a monument.
Those twelve stones which they took out of the Yarden, Y'hoshua piled up at Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they had taken out of the Jordan did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
They carried with them the twelve rocks that they had taken from the Jordan River, and Joshua set them up at Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan. Joshua set up at Gilgal.
There Joshua set up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan.
And the twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan were raised up in Gilgal by Joshua.
And ye twolue stones which they had taken out of Iordane, dyd Iosua set vp at Gilgall,
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal.
And the twelue stones whiche they toke out of Iordane, dyd Iosuah pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelue stones which they tooke out of Iordan, did Ioshua pitch in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
Also Josue puttide in Galgalis the twelue stonys, whiche thei hadden take fro the trow of Jordan.
and these twelve stones, which they have taken out of the Jordan, hath Joshua raised up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
And those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
It was there at Gilgal that Joshua piled up the twelve stones taken from the Jordan River.
Joshua set up at Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
Those twelve stones, which they had taken out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal,
And, these twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up, in Gilgal.
And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,
And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up in Gilgal.
Those twelve stones which they had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
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Joshua 4:3, Joshua 4:8
Reciprocal: Genesis 31:46 - Gather Exodus 24:4 - according Joshua 4:9 - and they are there Joshua 24:26 - set it Judges 3:19 - quarries 1 Samuel 7:12 - took a stone 1 Kings 18:31 - twelve stones Isaiah 19:20 - for a
Cross-References
And she again bore his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
And Abel also brought of the first born of his sheep and of his fatlings, and God looked upon Abel and his gifts,
but Cain and his sacrifices he regarded not, and Cain was exceedingly sorrowful and his countenance fell.
And the Lord God said to Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? and he said, I know not, am I my brother’s keeper?
And the Lord said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood cries to me out of the ground.
And now thou art cursed from the earth which has opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand.
When thou tillest the earth, then it shall not continue to give its strength to thee: thou shalt be groaning and trembling on the earth.
And the name of his brother was Jubal; he it was who invented the psaltery and harp.
And the lads grew, and Esau was a man skilled in hunting, dwelling in the country, and Jacob a simple man, dwelling in a house.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan,.... The twelve men who were sent there for that purpose, and took them from thence, and brought them hither, Joshua 4:3;
did Joshua pitch in Gilgal; set them in rows, or one upon another, and made a pillar of them commemorative of their passage over Jordan into the land of Canaan: according to Josephus n, he made an altar of these stones; and Ben Gersom is of opinion, that they were placed in the sanctuary by the ark, though not in it; which yet was the sentiment of Tertullian o, but very improbable; since that ark was not capable of such a number of large stones; and it must be a very large ark or chest, if one could be supposed to be made on purpose for them; but it is most likely they were erected in form of a pillar or statue, in memory of this wonderful event, the passage of Israel over Jordan, see Joshua 4:7; they may be considered as emblems of the twelve apostles of Christ, and their ministrations and writings; their number agrees, and so does the time of their appointment to go into all the world, and preach the Gospel, which was after the resurrection of Christ, typified by the passage of Joshua over Jordan, and out of it; the name of one of them, and he a principal one, was Peter or Cephas, which signifies a stone; and all of them in a spiritual sense were lively stones, chosen and selected from others, and called by grace, and were very probably most, if not all of them, baptized in this very place, Bethabara, from whence these stones were taken; and were like them unpolished, as to external qualifications, not having an education, and being illiterate, but wonderfully fitted by Christ for his service; and were not only pillars, as James, Cephas, and John, but in some sense foundation stones; as they were the instruments of laying Christ ministerially, as the foundation of salvation, and of preaching the fundamental truths of the Gospel, in which they were constant and immovable; and their ministry and writings, their Gospels and epistles, are so many memorials of what Christ, our antitypical Joshua, has done for us in passing over Jordan's river, or through death; finishing thereby transgression and sin, obtaining peace, pardon, righteousness, and salvation, opening the way to the heavenly Canaan, abolishing death, and bringing life and immortality to light.
n Ut supra. (Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 4.) o Contr. Marcion. l. 4. c. 13.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 4:20. Those twelve stones — It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected of some considerable height, and then the twelve stones placed on the top of it; and that this was the case both in Jordan and in Gilgal: for twelve such stones as a man could carry a considerable way on his shoulder, see Joshua 4:5, could scarcely have made any observable altar, or pillar of memorial: but erected on a high base of mason-work they would be very conspicuous, and thus properly answer the end for which God ordered them to be set up.
