Joshua 4

Joshua 4:1

Passed over] The place of their passage over Jordan, may seeme to be called afterwards Beth-barah, in the Tribe of Reuben, beyond Jordan, Judg. VII. 24. And Bethabara, John. I. 28. (not Bethania, as the Trent-Bible erroneously there hath it) where John baptized Jesus; as well as others. And Betharabah seemes to be a City not farre from the Passage on the other side, a City of Benjamin, bordering upon Judah, Josh. XV. 6. 61. and XVIII. 22. Though some not so rightly place the foresaid town higher upon the river more then twenty miles above Adam; and farre off from the border of Judah. At this Passage the Altar Ed seemes to be builded in the Tribe of Reuben, Josh. XXII. 11.

Joshua 4:2

Twelve men] Reuben, and Gad, are here included in the twelve; though their Possessions were beyond Iordan. And of these two Tribes, and half Manasseh, about fourty thousand armed men passed over Iordan to the warre, ver. 13. which were yet but a few more then one third part of their military men, Num. XXVI. 7, 18, 34. The rest stayed behinde for their many necessary occasions.

Joshua 4:19

Came up] They came over Iordan, on the tenth day of the first moneth; were Circumcised the eleventh; And did eate the Passeover on the fourteenth, Ch. V. 2, 10. Both which were omitted in the wildernesse; at least since the Returne of the twelve Spies, and after that Passeover at Mount Sinai, Num. IX. 5. See Iosh. V. 5, 7. And on the XVI. day Manna ceased, ver. 12.