Joshua 4 · Verse 22

Joshua 4:22

Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua 4:22, King James Version

Joshua 4:22 in other translations

BSByou are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
WEBThen you shall let your children know, saying, ‘Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
ASVthen ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
YLTthen ye have caused your sons to know, saying, On dry land Israel passed over this Jordan;
DARBYthen ye shall let your children know, saying, On dry land did Israel come over this Jordan;
BBEThen give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.
WebsterThen ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

What does Joshua 4:22 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 4:20-24

20-24. those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal--Probably to render them more conspicuous, they might be raised on a foundation of earth or turf. The pile was designed to serve a double purpose--that of impressing the heathen with a sense of the omnipotence of God, while at the same time it would teach an important lesson in religion to the young and rising Israelites in after…

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 22 Then ye shall let your children know - The necessity of an early religious education is inculcated through the whole oracles of God. The parents who neglect it have an awful account to give to the Judge of quick and dead.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 4:20-24

It is the duty of parents to tell their children betimes of the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In all the instruction parents give their children, they should teach them to fear God. Serious godliness is the best learning. Are we not called, as much as the Israelites, to praise the loving-kindness of our God? Shall we not raise a pillar to our God, who has brought us…

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Joshua 4:22 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וְהוֹדַעְתֶּ֖םve.ho.da'.Temand you will make known toH3045
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
בְּנֵיכֶ֣םbe.nei.Khemchildren yourH1121
לֵאמֹ֑רle.Mor<to> sayingH559
בַּיַּבָּשָׁה֙bai.ya.ba.Shahon the dry groundH3004
עָבַ֣ר'a.Varit passed overH5674
יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לYis.ra.'ElIsraelH3478
אֶת\־'et-<obj.>H853
הַיַּרְדֵּ֖ןhai.yar.Denthe JordanH3383
הַזֶּֽה\׃ha.Zeh<the> thisH2088

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Joshua 4:22

  • Joshua 3:17

    And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

  • Isaiah 51:10

    Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

  • Revelation 16:12

    And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the great river Euphrates; and the water thereof was dried up, that the way of the kings of the east might be prepared.

  • Isaiah 44:27

    That saith to the deep, Be dry, and I will dry up thy rivers:

  • Exodus 14:29

    But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

  • Exodus 15:19

    For the horse of Pharaoh went in with his chariots and with his horsemen into the sea, and the Lord brought again the waters of the sea upon them; but the children of Israel went on dry land in the midst of the sea.

  • Psalms 66:5-6

    Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men. He turned the sea into dry land: they went through the flood on foot: there did we rejoice in him.

  • Isaiah 11:15-16

    And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod. And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
3:17; Ex 14:29; 15:19; Ps 66:5,6; Isa 11:15,16; 44:27; 51:10
Re 16:12

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Context

  • 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?

  • Joshua 4:22

    Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

  • Joshua 4:23

    For 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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Joshua 4:22 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Declararéis á vuestros hijos, diciendo: Israel pasó en seco por este Jordán.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		vous instruirez vos fils, en disant: Israël a passé ce Jourdain à sec,
German
Elberfelder 1871		so sollt ihr es euren Kindern kundtun und sprechen: Auf trockenem Boden ist Israel durch diesen Jordan gezogen.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		docebitis eos, atque dicetis: Per arentem alveum transivit Israël Jordanem istum,