* set up twelve.
  Ex 24:12  28:21  1Ki 18:31  Ps 111:2-4 
 * and they are there.
   These words might be written by Joshua at the close of his
   life, or perhaps be added by some later prophet.  It seems
   from this verse, that there were two sorts of stones erected
   as a memorial of this great event:  twelve at Gilgal (ver.
   20,) 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 where
   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 any MS. yet
   collated; and it appears wholly unnecessary.

  Ge 26:33  De 34:6  Jud 1:26  1Sa 30:25  2Sa 4:3  2Ch 5:9  Mt 27:8 
  Mt 28:15