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Those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.
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A Memorial for Teaching
Commentators explain that the stones set up at Gilgal were a permanent, physical memorial. Their primary purpose was to serve as a teaching tool for future generations, prompting children to ask about their meaning and allowing parents to recount God's mighty act of parting the Jordan.
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Joshua
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19th Century
Anglican
(20—5:9) It would seem that these verses all belong to one section. The use of the first person in Joshua 5:1, until we were passed ov…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan The twelve men who were sent there for that purpose, and took …
Presbyterian
It is the duty of parents to tell their children early about the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In …
