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Joshua 4:21

Joshua 4:21
And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying,.... At the same time he set up the stones:

when you children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,

What mean these stones? See Gill on…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 4:20-24

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

When your children Nothing is more carefully inculcated in the Law than the duty of parents to teach their children not only its precepts and principles, but the meaning of all the great historical…

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