Introduction
When the people are passed over, Joshua commands twelve men, one taken out of each tribe, to take up a stone on his shoulder out of the midst of the river, and carry it to the other side, to be set up as a memorial of this miraculous passage, Joshua 4:1-7 . They do so, and set up the stones in the place where they encamp the first night, Joshua 4:8 , Joshua 4:9 . The priests stand in the river, till all the people are passed over, Joshua 4:10 , Joshua 4:11 . Of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 40,000 fighting men pass over with the other tribes, Joshua 4:12 , Joshua 4:13 . Joshua is magnified in the sight of the people, and they fear him as they did Moses, Joshua 4:14 . The priests are commanded to come up out of the river, which, on their leaving it, immediately returns, and overflows its banks as before, Joshua 4:15-18 . This miraculous passage takes place the tenth day of the first month, Joshua 4:19 . The stones are set up in Gilgal, and Joshua teaches the people what use they are to make of them, Joshua 4:20-24 .
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