about forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Some scholars have squirmed and quibbled over the setting up of two memorials, as mentioned here, declaiming on the stupidity of setting up a memorial where nobody would see it at the bottom of the Jordan, and other choice bits of human cavil.  Well, we thank God for the discernment of one like Pink, who has this: