Joshua 5:1

Joshua 5:1-9. Renewal of the Rite of Circumcision

1. when all the kings of the Amorites This verse stands in close connection with the last verse of the preceding Chapter. All the peoples of the earth were "to know the Name of the Lord" and to fear Him. A first example of this is seen in the case of the Canaanite nations.

which were by the sea See note above on Joshua 3:10.

their heart melted The terror which, as Rahab had told the spies, had already seized them was greatly increased by the news of the marvellous passage of the Jordan. Wyclif renders it, "the herte of hem is discomfortid, and abood not in hem spiryte of hem."