Joshua 4:2

Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

Cross-reference

Joshua 4:4 Parallel

Joshua 4:4 immediately fulfills the command — Joshua calls the twelve men from each tribe as instructed.

Joshua 4:8 Parallel

Joshua 4:8 completes the command: the people take twelve stones from the Jordan, exactly as the LORD told Joshua.

Joshua 3:12 Parallel

In Joshua 3:12, the same command appears: 'Take twelve men from the tribes' — this repeats that selection directly.

In 1 Kings 18:31, Elijah uses twelve stones for the tribes — both passages use twelve to represent Israel's tribes.

Exodus 24:4 Parallel

In Exodus 24:4, Moses builds twelve pillars representing the tribes — the same tribal symbolism used here for selecting twelve men.