Joshua 4:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Joshua 4:2 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 3:12
Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Matthew 10:1-5
And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease. …
Deuteronomy 1:23
And the saying pleased me well: and I took twelve men of you, one of a tribe:
1 Kings 18:31
And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, unto whom the word of the LORD came, saying, Israel shall be thy name:
Numbers 1:4-15
And with you there shall be a man of every tribe; every one head of the house of his fathers. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-9)

We may well imagine how busy Joshua and all the men of war were while they were passing over Jordan, when besides their own marching into an enemy’s country, and in the face of the enemy, which could not but occasion them many thoughts of hear, they had their wives, and children, and families, their cattle, and tents, and all their effects, bag and baggage, to convey by this strange and untrodden…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 2)

Jos 4:1-8. Twelve Stones Taken for a Memorial Out of Jordan. 1-3. the Lord spake unto Joshua, Take you twelve men--each representing a tribe. They had been previously chosen for this service (Jos 3:12), and the repetition of the command is made here solely to introduce the account of its execution. Though Joshua had been divinely instructed to erect a commemorative pile, the representatives were n…