23 "For the Lord your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before e you until you had crossed , just as the Lord your God had done to the Red e Sea , which He dried up before e us until we had crossed ; 24 that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty , so that you may fear the Lord your God forever e ."
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Joshua 4:23-24
Commentary on Joshua 4:20-24
(Read Joshua 4:20-24)
It is the duty of parents to tell their children betimes of the words and works of God, that they may be trained up in the way they should go. In all the instruction parents give their children, they should teach them to fear God. Serious godliness is the best learning. Are we not called, as much as the Israelites, to praise the loving-kindness of our God? Shall we not raise a pillar to our God, who has brought us through dangers and distresses in so wonderful a way? For hitherto the Lord hath helped us, as much as he did his saints of old. How great the stupidity and ingratitude of men, who perceive not His hand, and will not acknowledge his goodness, in their frequent deliverances!