23For 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:
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And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.
That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing the water before them, to make himself an everlasting name? …
Thus saith the LORD, which maketh a way in the sea, and a path in the mighty waters;
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled. …
And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on the dry land; and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, as a stone into the mighty waters.
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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