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Joshua 4:21 KJV
Joshua · chapter 4 · verse 21
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?Joshua 4:21 · King James Version
Joshua 4:21 in context
19And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
20And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
22Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
23For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- spakeʼâmarto sayH559 →
- comemâchârproperly, deferredH4279 →
- askshâʼalto inquireH7592 →
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The twelve stones which were laid down in Gilgal (Jos 4:8) are here set up either one upon another, yet so as that they might be distinctly counted, or one by another in rows; for after they were fixed they ar not call a heap of stones, but these stones. I.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 20-24