Joshua 4:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

Joshua 4:4 —

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Joshua 4:2
Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
Mark 3:14-19
And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, …

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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. 4)

4-5. Joshua called the twelve men--They had probably, from a feeling of reverence, kept back, and were standing on the eastern bank. They were now ordered to advance. Picking up each a stone, probably as large as he could carry, from around the spot “where the priests stood,” they pass over before the ark and deposit the stones in the place of next encampment (Jos 4:19, 20), namely, Gilgal.