Quotes about History
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
— Joshua 4:6
you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
— Joshua 4:7
Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.
— Joshua 4:9
And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.
— Joshua 4:20
you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
— Joshua 4:22
Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.
— Joshua 6:1
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
— Joshua 8:28
But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,
— Joshua 9:3
Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.
— Joshua 11:13
the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Bethel, one;
— Joshua 12:9
the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
— Joshua 12:12
the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
— Joshua 12:14