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Joshua 4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over Jordan, that the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every
tribe a man,
3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of
Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm,
twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave
them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
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Carry twelve stones over with you, and leave
them in the lodging place
4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the
children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your
God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a
stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the
children of Israel:
6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your
children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by
these stones?
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Twelve stones may be a sign among you
7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut
off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it
passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off:
and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of
Israel for ever.
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These stones shall be for a memorial unto the
children of Israel for ever. For them To
remember God did this.
8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded,
and took up
twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the Lord
spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children
of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where
they lodged, and laid them down there.
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Twelve stones, according to the number of the
tribes of the children of Israel
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Four things are said of these memorial stones in
verse 8 and 9.
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1. Taken up
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2.Carried over
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3. Laid down
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4. Set up
9 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.
10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan,
until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak
unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the
people hasted and passed over.
11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that
the ark of the Lord passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the
people.
12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half
the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of
Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the
Lord unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14 On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and
they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 And the Lord spake unto Joshua, saying,
16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they
come up out of Jordan.
17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of
Jordan.
18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the
covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the
soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the
waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his
banks, as they did before.
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The soles of the priests' feet were lifted up
unto the dry land, that the waters of
Jordan returned unto their place, and
flowed over all his banks, as they did
before.
19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the
first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of
Jericho.
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?
22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came
over this Jordan on dry land.
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What mean these stones?
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Israel came over this Jordan on dry land as God
did to the Red Sea
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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Why the lord do this? That all the people of the
earth might know the hand of the Lord
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile of
Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be conquered by the
Assyrians was Manasseh, in 745 B.C. Exactly
2520 years later America became a nation on
July 4, 1776.
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt -
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