Joshua’s Stone in the Jordan river
What do the 12 stones in the Jordan River mean? Shortly before crossing the Jordan River, God commanded Joshua to take one representative for each tribe of Israel and take a stone in the middle of the Jordan River, a fully dried river, and assemble it at the riverbank, as a Memorial stone . The Memorial stones of Joshua Let’s explore why it became a memorial The story can be read from the biblical account in the book of Joshua, chapter 4. Verses 1-9 “When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, “Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from right where the priests are standing, and carry them over with you and put them down at the place where you stay tonight.” So Joshua called together the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe, and said to them, “Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle ...