Joshua 4:3-9
the priests feet Josh 3:13 twelve stones Josh 24:27; Gen 28:22; Deut 27:1-26; 1Sam 7:12; Ps 103:2, Ps 11:4; Luke 19:40 leave them Josh 4:8, Josh 4:19-20 prepared Josh 4:2; Mark 3:14-19 a sign Josh 22:27; Exod 12:14, Exod 13:9, Exod 31:13; Num 16:38; Isa 55:13; Ezek 20:12, Ezek 20:20 when your Josh 4:21; Exod 12:26-27, Exod 13:14; Deut 6:20-21, Deut 11:19; Ps 44:1, Ps 71:18, Ps 78:3-8; Isa 38:19; Acts 2:39 in time to come Heb. to-morrow the waters Josh 3:13-16 memorial Josh 4:6; Exod 12:14, Exod 28:12, Exod 30:16; Num 16:40; Ps 111:4; Isa 66:3 *marg. 1Cor 11:24 did so as Joshua Josh 4:2-5, Josh 1:16-18 set up twelve Exod 24:12, Exod 28:21; 1Kgs 18:31; Ps 111:2-4 and they are there These words might be written by Joshua at the close of his life, or perhaps be added by some later prophet. It seems from this verse, that there were two sorts of stones erected as a memorial of this great event. Twelve at Gilgal (Josh 4:20), and twelve in the bed of the Jordan; which last might have been placed on a base of strong stone work, so high as always to be visible, and serve to mark the very spot where the priests stood with the ark. Drs. Kennicott and Shuckford, however, would read here with the Syriac, mittoch, "from the midst," instead of bethoch, "in the midst;" and render, "And Joshua took up the twelve stones (taken) from the midst of Jordan," etc. But this reading is unsupported by any manuscript yet collated; and it appears wholly unnecessary. Gen 26:33; Deut 34:6; Judg 1:26; 1Sam 30:25; 2Sam 4:3; 2Chr 5:9; Matt 27:8; Matt 28:15
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