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Joshua 5:5-7

Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.

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See also Joshua 5:5-7 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    Of the whole nation those only were already circumcised at the time of the passage of the Jordan who had been under twenty years of age at the time of the complaining and consequent rejection at Kades...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. AT GILGAL CHAPTER 5 _ 1. The terrified enemies (Joshua 5:1)_ 2. Circumcision commanded and executed (Joshua 5:2) 3. The Passover kept (Joshua 5:10) 4. The old corn of the land ...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    Joshua Circumcises the Israelites. Here we have an interesting but quite unhistorical account of the institution of circumcision. Circumcision (pp. 83, 99f.) is a prehistoric rite practised by many na...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 4-7. _AND THIS IS THE CAUSE,_ &C.— The reason is clearly expressed in the text. Excepting Joshua and Caleb, all the six hundred thousand fighting men, who came out of Egypt, had died during the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _The Covenant of Circumcision Joshua 5:1-9_ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the s...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    RENEWAL OF CIRCUMCISION AND CELEBRATION OF THE PASSOVER The two incidents recorded in Joshua 5:2;—Circumcision and the Passover—represent the final stage in the preparation of the people for the Holy...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 5 *CIRCUMCISION AND *PASSOVER – JOSHUA 5:1-...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (20 — 5:9) It would seem that these verses all belong to one section. The use of the first person in Joshua 5:1, “until _we_ were passed over,” is most naturally explained by taking the verse as part...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    כִּֽי ־מֻלִ֣ים הָי֔וּ כָּל ־הָ עָ֖ם הַ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER X. CIRCUMCISION AND PASSOVER- MANNA AND CORN. Joshua 5:1. THE first two facts recorded in this chapter seem to be closely connected with each other. One is, that when all the Amorite and Can...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    RENEWING THE COVENANT WITH GOD Joshua 5:1 Evidently the people of Canaan realized that they were entering into conflict with God Almighty. This made their bitter resistance less excusable. But before...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The effect on the people of this crossing of the Jordan is revealed in the words, "Their heart melted, neither was there any spirit in them any more." Therefore time must again be taken for matters di...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    Five events of interest are recorded in Joshua 5:1-15. First, we learn that the kings of the Canaanites by the sea lost heart when they learned how the Lord had caused Israel to pass through Jordan on...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, [them] they had (d) not circumcised. (d) For they...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Desert. After the departure from Sinai, where the Passover was celebrated, and where, of course, the people must have been circumcised. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    As circumcision was a sign or seal of the everlasting covenant God made with Abraham, and evidently referred to Him in whom the law was to be completed: it is not very easy to account for the long neg...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    The passing of the Jordan was a wondrous and significant event; but it was not everything. It sank deep into the consciences of the Canaanites on all sides; but there was more that was needed, and mor...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    The power of resurrection-life takes all strength from Satan: "He who is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not." In our earthly life, the flesh being in us, we are expo...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    NOW ALL THE PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT WERE CIRCUMCISED,.... All that came out of Egypt, and males, were circumcised, whether under or above twenty years of age; for though it is possible all were circumcis...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised. Ver. 5. _Now all...

  • Jonathan Edwards' Notes On The Scriptures

    Jos. 5:4-7. Concerning their not circumcising the children, that were born in the wilderness. Considering the plainness of the precept of circumcision and the strictness of the injunction, and that no...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _The people born in the wilderness they had not circumcised_ What occasioned this omission is not said, nor is it easy to determine whether it arose from negligence, or from God's dispensing, for a ti...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The Canaanites are afraid. 2 Ioshua renueth Circumcision. 10 The Passeouer is kept at Gilgal. 12 Manna ceaseth. 13 An Angel appeareth to Ioshua. 1 AND it came to passe when all the Kings of the...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Now, all the people that came out were circumcised, the rite having been observed with all strictness in Egypt; BUT ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WERE BORN IN THE WILDERNESS BY THE WAY AS THEY CAME FORTH OUT OF...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE PEOPLE...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    CIRCUMCISION IN GILGAL (vs.1-9) The miraculous crossing of the Jordan awakened great fear in the hearts of the Canaanitish people, so that their hearts melted (v.1). This was God's work. It was He w...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-9 How dreadful is their case, who see the wrath of God advancing towards them, without being able to turn it aside, or escape it! Such will be the horrible situation of the wicked; nor can words ex...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEY; either their parents, or the rulers of Israel, whose omission hereof was not through neglect; for then God, who had ordered the neglecter of circumcision to be cut off, GENESIS 17:14, would not...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 5:5 For H3588 people H5971 out H3318 (H8802) circumcised H4135 (H8803) people H5971 born H3209 wilderness...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised. All the people who came out of Egypt who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. For all...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Reproach of Egypt rolled away. New food for the new place. The unseen captain. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, Christ. CONCLUSION: (Circumcision, the seal of the covenant in their flesh, was negl...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 5:1. _The Amorites on the side of Jordan westward._ This agrees with Numbers 13:29. The Amorites dwell in the mountains. Joshua 5:2. _Make thee sharp knives._ Whet them, if of steel; but often...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Make thee sharp knives and circumcise._ THE CIRCUMCISING AT GILGAL Even those comparatively unenlightened people must have realised that there was deep spiritual significance in the administration o...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 5:1__ A new generation is circumcised to remind them of their privileged covenant relationship with God. The Passover celebration reminds them that God released them from slavery...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 5:2. Sharp knives] Marg. “knives of flints” (cf. Exodus 4:25). The reason for using stone knives may have been more on account of legal than of physical considerations. The use...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THE CIRCUMCISION.— JOSHUA 5:1 WHICH WERE ON THE SIDE OF JORDAN WESTWARD. A large portion of the territory of the Amorites had, as we have seen (Joshua 3:10), been already conquered. The r...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter five we read where all of the adult males were at this point circumcised. It was a rite that they did not follow while they were in the wilderness. So that those who were born in the wi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 7:19; Deuteronomy 12:8; Deuteronomy 12:9; Galatians 5:6;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Them — Either their parents, or the rulers of Israel, by Divine permission and indulgence; because they were now on a journey, in which case the passover also might be neglected, Numbers 9:10, Numbers...

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