Joshua 4:9 “Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the p…”

Joshua 4:9

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

World English Bible

Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

American Standard Version

And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

Geneva Bible 1599

And Ioshua set vp twelue stones in the middes of Iorden, in the place where the feete of the Priests, which bare the Arke of the couenant stood, and there haue they continued vnto this day.

Darby Translation

And twelve stones did Joshua set up in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant had stood firm; and they are there to this day.

Young's Literal Translation

even the twelve stones hath Joshua raised up out of the midst of the Jordan, the place of the standing of the feet of the priests bearing the ark of the covenant, and they are there unto this day.

Bible in Basic English

And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.

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Cross references

“set up twelve”

Exodus 24:12 Exodus 28:21 Psalm 111:2–4 1 Kings 18:31

Exodus 24:12 · BSB

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.”

Exodus 28:21 · BSB

The twelve stones are to correspond to the names of the sons of Israel, each engraved like a seal with the name of one of the twelve tribes.

Psalm 111:2–4 · BSB

Great are the works of the LORD; they are pondered by all who delight in them.

1 Kings 18:31 · BSB

And Elijah took twelve stones, one for each tribe of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come and said, “Israel shall be your name.”

“and they are there”

Genesis 26:33 Deuteronomy 34:6 Judges 1:26 1 Samuel 30:25 2 Samuel 4:3 2 Chronicles 5:9

Genesis 26:33 · BSB

So he called it Shibah, and to this day the name of the city is Beersheba.

Deuteronomy 34:6 · BSB

And He buried him in a valley in the land of Moab facing Beth-peor, and no one to this day knows the location of his grave.

Judges 1:26 · BSB

And the man went to the land of the Hittites, built a city, and called it Luz, which is its name to this day.

1 Samuel 30:25 · BSB

And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute and ordinance for Israel to this very day.

2 Samuel 4:3 · BSB

because the Beerothites fled to Gittaim and have lived there as foreigners to this day.

2 Chronicles 5:9 · BSB

The poles of the ark extended far enough that their ends were visible from in front of the inner sanctuary, but not from outside the Holy Place; and they are there to this day.

Also

1 Samuel 7:12 Joshua 24:26 Genesis 28:18

1 Samuel 7:12 · BSB

Afterward, Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezer, saying, “Thus far the LORD has helped us.”

Joshua 24:26 · BSB

Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

Genesis 28:18 · BSB

Early the next morning, Jacob took the stone that he had placed under his head, and he set it up as a pillar. He poured oil on top of it,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.

10Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,

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