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Text -- Joshua 4:23 (NET)

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4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the water of the Jordan before you while you crossed over. It was just like when the Lord your God dried up the Red Sea before us while we crossed it.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)
 · Red Sea the ocean between Egypt and the Sinai Peninsula,the sea between Egypt and Arabia


Dictionary Themes and Topics: Stones | Red Sea | Miracles | Jordan | Israel | Instruction | Gilgal | more
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Word/Phrase Notes
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TSK Synopsis , Maclaren , MHCC , Matthew Henry , Keil-Delitzsch , Constable , Guzik

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Jos 4:23 - -- That is, myself and Caleb, and all of us here present; for this benefit, though done to their fathers, is justly said to be done to themselves, becaus...

That is, myself and Caleb, and all of us here present; for this benefit, though done to their fathers, is justly said to be done to themselves, because they were then in their parent's loins. It greatly magnifies later mercies, to compare them with former mercies; for hereby it appears, that God is the same yesterday, today and forever.

JFB: Jos 4:20-24 - -- Probably to render them more conspicuous, they might be raised on a foundation of earth or turf. The pile was designed to serve a double purpose--that...

Probably to render them more conspicuous, they might be raised on a foundation of earth or turf. The pile was designed to serve a double purpose--that of impressing the heathen with a sense of the omnipotence of God, while at the same time it would teach an important lesson in religion to the young and rising Israelites in after ages.

TSK: Jos 4:23 - -- as the Lord : The parents must take that occasion to tell their children of the drying up of the Red Sea forty years before: ""As the Lord your God d...

as the Lord : The parents must take that occasion to tell their children of the drying up of the Red Sea forty years before: ""As the Lord your God did to the Red Sea.""It greatly magnifies later mercies to compare them with those before enjoyed; for, by making the comparison, it appears that God is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Later blessings should also bring to remembrance former mercies, and revive thankfulness for them.

which he dried : Exo 14:21; Neh 9:11; Psa 77:16-19, Psa 78:13; Isa 43:16, Isa 63:12-14

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Poole: Jos 4:23 - -- Before us i.e. myself and Caleb, and all of us here present; for this benefit, though done to their fathers, is justly and rightly said to be done to...

Before us i.e. myself and Caleb, and all of us here present; for this benefit, though done to their fathers, is justly and rightly said to be done to themselves, because they were then in their parents’ loins; and their very being, and all their happiness, depended upon that deliverance.

Gill: Jos 4:23 - -- For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over,.... As this is supposed to be said in future time, and...

For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over,.... As this is supposed to be said in future time, and to persons who were not upon the spot when this was done, and so entirely ignorant of the affair; it is not to be understood of them personally, but of the same people they were of, the people of Israel in former times, of their ancestors, and of them in them; the benefits of which they enjoyed by possessing the land of Canaan their fathers were at this time introduced into:

as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over; for though the generation of men, for the most part, was dead, that passed through the Red sea; yet as Joshua himself, and Caleb and Eleazar, and it may be some others that were not among the murmurers, were still living, for whom that miracle was wrought, this way of speaking is very properly made use of; and especially when it is observed, that there were many of the present generation then young, which passed over, and even those unborn were in and represented by their ancestors, and who enjoyed the advantages of that wonderful mercy; so these two strange events are joined together, as instances of divine power and goodness, in Psa 114:3.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Jos 4:23 Heb “just as the Lord your God did to the Red Sea when he dried [it] up before us while we crossed over.”

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Jos 4:1-24 - --1 Twelve men are appointed to take twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan.9 Twelve other stones are set up in the midst of Jordan.10 The people pa...

Maclaren: Jos 4:10-24 - --Joshua 4:10-24 This chapter is divided into two sections. The first (from Joshua 4:5, 6 of the chapter belong to the section which deals with the prep...

MHCC: Jos 4:20-24 - --It is the duty of parents to tell their children betimes of the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In all ...

Matthew Henry: Jos 4:20-24 - -- 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 counte...

Keil-Delitzsch: Jos 4:20-24 - -- There Joshua set up the twelve stones, which they had taken over with them out of the Jordan, and explained to the people at the same time the impor...

Constable: Jos 4:1-24 - --The memorial of the crossing ch. 4 The main point in the story of the crossing recorded in this chapter is the removal of the stones from the river be...

Guzik: Jos 4:1-24 - --Joshua 4 - Memorial Stones A. Crossing the Jordan River is finished and the ark of the covenant comes from the midst of the river. 1. (1-9) After th...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Joshua (Book Introduction) JOSHUA. The title of this book is derived from the pious and valiant leader whose achievements it relates and who is commonly supposed to have been it...

JFB: Joshua (Outline) THE LORD APPOINTS JOSHUA TO SUCCEED MOSES. (Jos. 1:1-18) RAHAB RECEIVES AND CONCEALS THE TWO SPIES. (Jos 2:1-7) THE COVENANT BETWEEN HER AND THEM. (J...

TSK: Joshua (Book Introduction) The Book of Joshua is one of the most important documents in the Old Testament. The rapid conquest of the Promised Land, and the actual settlement of...

TSK: Joshua 4 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Jos 4:1, Twelve men are appointed to take twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan; Jos 4:9, Twelve other stones are set up in the mids...

Poole: Joshua (Book Introduction) BOOK OF JOSHUA THE ARGUMENT IT is not material to know who was the penman of this book, whether Joshua, as seems most probable from Jos 24:26 , o...

Poole: Joshua 4 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 4 God commands them to carry twelve stones for a memorial out of Jordan; Joshua orders it; the people perform, Jos 4:1-8 . Twelve other sto...

MHCC: Joshua (Book Introduction) Here is the history of Israel's passing into the land of Canaan, conquering and dividing it, under the command of Joshua, and their history until his ...

MHCC: Joshua 4 (Chapter Introduction) (Jos 4:1-9) Stones taken out of Jordan. (Jos 4:10-19) The people pass through Jordan. (Jos 4:20-24) The twelve stones placed in Gilgal.

Matthew Henry: Joshua (Book Introduction) An Exposition, with Practical Observations, of The Book of Joshua I. We have now before us the history of the Jewish nation in this book and those tha...

Matthew Henry: Joshua 4 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter gives a further account of the miraculous passage of Israel through Jordan. I. The provision that was made at that time to preserve t...

Constable: Joshua (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The name of this book in Hebrew, Greek, and English comes from the ...

Constable: Joshua (Outline) Outline I. The conquest of the land chs. 1-12 A. Preparations for entering Canaan chs. 1-2 ...

Constable: Joshua Joshua Bibliography Aharoni, Yohanan. "The Province-List of Judah." Vetus Testamentum 9 (1959):225-46. ...

Haydock: Joshua (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION. THE BOOK OF JOSUE. This book is called Josue , because it contains the history of what passed under him, and, according to the comm...

Gill: Joshua (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA The Jews distinguish the prophets into former and latter; the first of the former prophets is Joshua, or Sepher Joshua, the ...

Gill: Joshua 4 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 4 This chapter relates an order, that is men, should take twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, and carry them to the fi...

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