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Joshua 4:23 KJV
Joshua · chapter 4 · verse 23
For 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:Joshua 4:23 · King James Version
Joshua 4:23 in context
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:
24That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- watersmayimwaterH4325 →
- JordanYardênJarden, the principal river of PalestineH3383 →
- beforepânîymthe faceH6440 →
- LORDYᵉhôvâhJehovah, Jewish national name of GodH3068 →
- Godʼĕlôhîymgods in the ordinary senseH430 →
- Redçûwpha reed, especially the papyrusH5488 →
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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