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21And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

Joshua 4:21

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • 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?

  • One generation shall praise thy works to another, and shall declare thy mighty acts. …

  • Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works. …

Commentary

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

(vv. 20-24)

The twelve stones which were laid down in Gilgal (Josh. 4:8) are here set up either one upon another, yet so as that they might be distinctly counted, or one by another in rows; for after they were fixed they ar not call a heap of stones , but these stones . I. It is here taken for granted that posterity would enquire into the meaning of them, supposing them intended for a memorial: Your children…

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