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Yosua 4:3

dan perintahkanlah kepada mereka, demikian: Angkatlah dua belas batu dari sini, dari tengah-tengah sungai Yordan ini, dari tempat berjejak kaki para imam itu, bawalah semuanya itu ke seberang dan letakkanlah di tempat kamu akan bermalam nanti malam."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Instruction;   Pillar;   Stones;   Token;   Scofield Reference Index - Stones;   Thompson Chain Reference - Jordan;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Jordan, the River;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Remember, Remembrance;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Shechem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gilgal;   Jordan;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Inn;   Lodge;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - God;   Jericho;   Joshua;   Quarry;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Jordan ;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gil'gal;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Apostle;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Images;   Inn;   Joshua (2);   Joshua, Book of;   Lodge;   Sign;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Gilgal;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 28;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
dan perintahkanlah kepada mereka, demikian: Angkatlah dua belas batu dari sini, dari tengah-tengah sungai Yordan ini, dari tempat berjejak kaki para imam itu, bawalah semuanya itu ke seberang dan letakkanlah di tempat kamu akan bermalam nanti malam."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
dan suruhlah akan mereka itu demikian: Ambillah olehmu dari sini, dari tengah-tengah Yarden, dari pada tempat kejejakan kaki segala imam itu berdiri, akan dua belas buah batu, bawalah akan dia sertamu ke seberang, lalu taruhlah akan dia pada tempat perhentian kamu bermalam kelak pada malam ini.

Contextual Overview

1 And so when the people were al gone ouer Iordane (after ye Lord had spoken vnto Iosuah, saying: 2 Take you twelue men out of the people, out of euery tribe a man, 3 And commaunde you them, saying: Take you hence out of the middes of Iordane [euen] out of the place where the priestes stoode in a redinesse, twelue stones, which ye shall take away with you, and leaue them in the lodgyng where you shall lodge this nyght) 4 Then Iosuah called the twelue men, which he had prepared of the chyldren of Israel, out of euery tribe a man. 5 And Iosuah sayde vnto them: Get you before the arke of the Lorde your God, euen through the middes of Iordane, and take vp euery man of you a stone vpon his shoulder, accordyng vnto the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel, 6 That this may be a signe among you: That when your chyldren aske their fathers in tyme to come, saying, What [meane] these stones with you? 7 Ye maye aunswere them: howe that the waters of Iordane deuided at the presence of the arke of the couenaunt of the Lorde, (For when it went ouer Iordane, the waters of Iordane deuided) And these stones are become a memoriall vnto the chyldren of Israel for euer. 8 And the chyldren of Israel dyd euen so as Iosuah commaunded, and toke vp twelue stones out of the middes of Iordane as the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah, accordyng to the number of the tribes of the chyldren of Israel, and caryed them away with them vnto the place where they lodged, & layde them downe there. 9 And Iosuah set vp twelue stones in the middes of Iordane, in the place where the feete of the priestes whiche bare the arke of the testament stoode: and there haue they continued vnto this day.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

the priests feet: Joshua 3:13

twelve stones: Joshua 24:27, Genesis 28:22, Deuteronomy 27:1-26, 1 Samuel 7:12, Psalms 103:2, Psalms 11:4, Luke 19:40

leave them: Joshua 4:8, Joshua 4:19, Joshua 4:20

Reciprocal: Exodus 24:4 - according Joshua 3:17 - stood firm Joshua 24:26 - set it 1 Kings 18:31 - twelve stones Ecclesiastes 3:5 - to cast Luke 3:8 - of these

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.
Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Numbers 18:12
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.
1 Kings 17:7
And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.
Nehemiah 13:6
But in all this time was not I at Hierusalem: for in the two and thirtie yere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, & after certayne dayes obtayned I licence of the king to come to Hierusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And command you them, saying,.... As follows:

take you hence out of the midst of Jordan; so that they were obliged to go back into the midst of Jordan, having already passed over it, as appears from Joshua 4:1;

out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm; where being stones, they chose to stand upon them, and which were a firm standing for them; and which secured them from the slime and mud at the bottom of the river the waters left behind; though it is not absolutely necessary to understand it that they were to take, and did take, the stones from under their feet, but those that lay about the place where they stood:

twelve stones; each man a stone; and, according to the Samaritan Chronicle f, every man inscribed his name on the stone:

and ye shall carry them over with you; from the place they took them up, to the place they should next stop at:

and leave them in the lodging place where you shall lodge this night: which was in the place afterwards called Gilgal, Joshua 4:19.

f Apud Hottinger. Smegma Oriental. p. 500, 503.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 4:3. Where ye shall lodge this night. — This was in the place that was afterwards called Gilgal. See Joshua 4:19.


 
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