(The view expressed in this blog are my own and should not be taken as inspired in any way.)
Joshua 4:20–24, “And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch in Gilgal. 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? Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 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: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.”
There were actually two sets of twelve stones. One set was taken from the bank of the river and left in the middle of the river where the priests, with the ark, stood while the people crossed and another set of stones that were taken from the bed of the river and set up in the Promised Land so that a memorial to this miraculous event could be built. The reason this memorial was built was to make sure that the people didn’t ever forget what the Lord had done to bring them into the Promised Land. This was just one in a series of many miracles but it marked a milestone as it was the first time that the nation came into the Land that the Lord promised to Abraham and his descendants more than four hundred years before. It is good for everyone who reads this passage to understand the importance of teaching our children the right was to live their lives. The parents are always responsible to teach their children and one important way is by doing things that cause our children to ask questions. We can then explain to them why we do what we do.
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