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Joshua 4:22

Jordan
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20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.

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?

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

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:

24 That 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.

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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.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Joshua 3:17

    And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

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  • Isaiah 51:10

    Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

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  • Revelation 16:12

    And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

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  • Isaiah 44:27

    That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

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  • Exodus 14:29

    But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

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  • Exodus 15:19

    For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the LORD brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

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  • Psalms 66:5–6

    Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.

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  • Isaiah 11:15–16

    And the LORD shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

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