Joshua 4:20-21
20And athose twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. 21And he said to the people of Israel, b“When your children ask their fathers in times to come, ‘What do these stones mean?’Joshua 22:27-28
27but to be ca witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we ddo perform the service of the Lord in his presence with our burnt offerings and sacrifices and peace offerings, so your children will not say to our children in time to come, “You have no portion in the Lord.”’ 28And we thought, ‘If this should be said to us or to our descendants in time to come, we should say, “Behold, the copy of the altar of the Lord, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifice, but to be ea witness between us and you.”’Joshua 22:34
34The people of Reuben and the people of Gad called the altar Witness, “For,” they said, f“it is a witness between us that the Lord is God.”Joshua 24:26-27
26And Joshua gwrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And hhe took a large stone and set it up there iunder the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. 27And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, jthis stone shall be a witness against us, for kit has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.”Isaiah 55:13
13 lInstead of the thorn shall come up the cypress;instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle;
and it shall make a name for the Lord,
an everlasting sign that shall not be cut off.”
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