Joshua 4:22
20 And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
21 Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.
24 He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
- KJV
- Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- WEB
- Then you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- ASV
- Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
- DARBY
- then ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan;
- BLB
- And you⁺ shall let your⁺ sons know, saying, ‘On the dry land Israel passed over this Jordan.’
- ÅB
- da skal dere fortelle deres barn det og si: Israel gikk tørrskodd over Jordan her,
- OTB
- skal dere informere dem: 'Israel krysset Jordan på tørr grunn.'
- B1930
- da skal I fortelle eders barn det og si: Israel gikk tørrskodd over Jordan her,
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Joshua 3:17
The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.
Read in contextIsaiah 51:10
Was it not You who dried up the sea, the waters of the great deep, who made a road in the depths of the sea for the redeemed to cross over?
Read in contextRevelation 16:12
And the sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings of the East.
Read in contextIsaiah 44:27
who says to the depths of the sea, ‘Be dry, and I will dry up your currents,’
Read in contextExodus 14:29
But the Israelites had walked through the sea on dry ground, with walls of water on their right and on their left.
Read in contextExodus 15:19
For when Pharaoh’s horses, chariots, and horsemen went into the sea, the LORD brought the waters of the sea back over them. But the Israelites walked through the sea on dry ground.
Read in contextPsalms 66:5–6
Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.
Read in contextIsaiah 11:15–16
The LORD will devote to destruction the gulf of the Sea of Egypt; with a scorching wind He will sweep His hand over the Euphrates. He will split it into seven streams for men to cross with dry sandals.
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