And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
These stones were set up as a memorial, and children would naturally ask what they meant. Parents must teach the young to inquire into God's works and to pass down what they have learned, for it is every parent's duty to train children in the word and works of God from their earliest days.
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Commenting on Joshua 4:20-24
Those twelve stones were set up as a pillar in Gilgal to commemorate Israel's passage over Jordan into Canaan. They shadow forth the twelve apostles of Christ: twelve in number like them, appointed after His resurrection typified by Joshua's crossing, and like those stones unpolished in external gifts yet wonderfully fitted by Christ for His service.
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On that day it became unmistakable to all Israel that Joshua was God's chosen leader, because even the priests obeyed only his command. His authority was now settled as firmly as Moses' had been.
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Commenting on Joshua 4:14-24