And Joshua put other twelve stones in the midst of the channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark of the covenant: and they are there until this present day.

set up twelve

Exodus 24:12 And the Lord said to Moses: Come up to me into the mount, and be there; and I will give thee tables of stone, and the law, and the commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

Exodus 28:21 And they shall have the names of the children of Israel: with twelve names shall they be engraved, each stone with the name of one according to the twelve tribes.

1 Kings 18:31 And he took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob to whom the word of the Lord came, saying: Israel shall be thy name.

Psalm 111:2-4 Great are the works of the Lord: sought out according to all his wills. . . .

Joshua 4:20 And the twelve stones, which they had taken out of the channel of the Jordan, Joshua pitched in Galgal,

) and twelve in the bed of the Jordan; which last might have been placed on a base of strong stone work, so high as always to be visible, and serve to mark the very spot when the priests stood with the ark. Drs. Kennicott and Shuckford, however, would read here with the Syriac, mittoch, 'from the midst,' instead of bethoch, 'in the midst;' and render, `And Joshua took up the twelve stones (taken) from the midst of Jordan,' etc. But this reading is unsupported by and MS. yet collated; and it appears wholly unnecessary

Genesis 26:33 Whereupon he called it Abundance: and the name of the city was called Bersabee, even to this day.

Deuteronomy 34:6 And he buried him in the valley of the land of Moab over against Phogor: and no man hath known of his sepulchre until this present day.

Judges 1:26 Who being sent away, went into the land of Hetthim, and built there a city, and called it Luza: which is so called until this day.

1 Samuel 30:25 And this hath been done from that day forward, and since was made a statute and an ordinance, and as a law in Israel.

2 Samuel 4:3 And the Berothites fled into Gethaim, and were sojourners there until that time.

2 Chronicles 5:9 Now the ends of the staves wherewith the ark was carried, because they were some thing longer, were seen before the oracle: but if a man were a little outward, he could not see them. So the ark has been there unto this day.

Matthew 27:8 For this cause that field was called Haceldama, that is, the field of blood, even to this day.

Matthew 28:15 So they taking the money, did as they were taught: and this word was spread abroad among the Jews even unto this day.