JOSHUA CHAPTER 5 The Amorites and Canaanites hear of this, and are afraid, JOSHUA 5:1. The males born in the wilderness are circumcised, JOSHUA 5:2. The passover is celebrated, JOSHUA 5:10. They eat of the corn of the land, and the manna ceaseth, JOSHUA 5:11,12. Christ appeareth to Joshua in form of... [ Continue Reading ]
AT THAT TIME; as soon as ever they were come to Gilgal, which was on the tenth day; and so this might be executed the next, or the eleventh day, and that in the morning: on the thirteenth day they were sore of their wounds, and on the fourteenth day they recovered, and at the even of that day kept t... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. He caused this to be done; and because it was to be done speedily, the passover approaching, it was necessary to use many hands in it, either priests and Levites, or other circumcised persons, who, at least in those circumstances, were permitted to do it. THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, i.e. such of th... [ Continue Reading ]
This is to be restrained to such as were then above twenty years old, and such as were guilty of that rebellion, NUM 14, as it is expressed below, JOSHUA 5:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
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 have left so gross a fault unpunished; but by Divine permission and indulgence; partly because they... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE PEOPLE; the Hebrew word commonly signifies the Gentiles; so he calls them, to note that they were unworthy of the name and privileges of Israelites. HE WOULD NOT SHOW THEM, i.e. not give them so much as a sight of it, which he granted to Moses, much less the possession and enjoyment of it. O... [ Continue Reading ]
THEM JOSHUA CIRCUMCISED; which God would have now done, 1. As a testimony of God's reconciliation to the people, of which circumcision was a sign, and that God would not further impute their parents rebellions to them. 2. Because the great impediment of circumcision was now removed, to wit, their... [ Continue Reading ]
Free from that pain and sore which circumcision caused, GENESIS 34:25. It was indeed an act of great faith to expose themselves to so much pain and danger too in this place, where they were hemmed in by Jordan and their enemies; but they had many considerations to support their faith, and suppress t... [ Continue Reading ]
THE REPROACH OF EGYPT, i.e. uncircumcision, which was both in truth, and in the opinion of the Jews, a matter of great reproach, GENESIS 34:14 1 SAMUEL 14:6, 1 SAMUEL 17:26. And although this was a reproach common to most nations of the world, yet it is particularly called the reproach of Egypt; eit... [ Continue Reading ]
This was their third passover: the first was in Egypt, EXO 12; the second at Mount Sinai, NUM 9; the third here; for in their wilderness travels these and all other sacrifices were neglected, AMOS 5:25.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE OLD CORN; the corn of the last year, which the inhabitants of those parts had left in their barns, being doubtless fled for fear of the Israelites into their strong cities, or other remoter and safer parts. ON THE MORROW AFTER THE PASSOVER, i.e. on the sixteenth day; for the passover was killed... [ Continue Reading ]
God now withheld THE MANNA, 1. To show that it was not an ordinary production of nature, as by the long and constant enjoyment of it they might be prone to think; but an extraordinary and special gift of God to supply their necessity. 2. because God would not be prodigal of his favours, nor expose... [ Continue Reading ]
BY JERICHO, Heb. _in Jericho_, i.e. in the country or territory adjoining to Jericho, whither he went to view those parts, and discern the fittest places for his attempt upon Jericho, as generals usually do. A MAN; one in the appearance of man. WITH HIS SWORD DRAWN, in readiness to fight, not, as Jo... [ Continue Reading ]
HE SAID, NAY, I am neither Israelite nor Canaanite. CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF THE LORD; either, 1. Of all creatures in heaven and earth, which are God's hosts. Or, 2. Of the angels, who are called the host of heaven, 1 KINGS 22:19 2 CHRONICLES 18:18 LUKE 2:13. Or, 3. Of the host or people of Israel,... [ Continue Reading ]
LOOSE THY SHOE FROM OFF THY FOOT, in token of reverence and subjection: see on EXODUS 3:5. The place is holy, consecrated by my presence; which when it was withdrawn, it was no more holy than any other place, the reason of its holiness being removed.... [ Continue Reading ]