And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
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Gill's Exposition
And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan,.... The twelve men who were sent there for that purpose, and took them from thence, and brought them hither, Jos 4:3,
did Joshua pitch in…
Adam Clarke
Those twelve stones - It is very likely that a base of mason-work was erected of some considerable height, and then the twelve stones placed on the top of it; and that this was the case both in Jordan…
The twelve stones which were laid down in Gilgal (Jos 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…
Cambridge Bible
those twelve stones which seem to have been invested with a reverence which came to be regarded at last as idolatrous (Hos 4:15; Hos 9:15; Amo 4:4; Amo 5:5).