_A.M. 2553. B.C. 1451._ Canaanites terrified, Joshua 5:1. Circumcision renewed, Joshua 5:2. The passover kept, Joshua 5:10. The Israelites eat corn, and the manna ceases, Joshua 5:11; Joshua 5:12. Christ appears to Joshua! 13-15.... [ Continue Reading ]
_Amorites_ These and the Canaanites are mentioned for all the rest, as being the chief of them for number, and power, and courage. _On the side of Jordan westward_ This is added to distinguish them from the other Amorites, eastward from Jordan, whom Moses had subdued. _Which were by the sea_ The mid... [ Continue Reading ]
_At that time_ Namely, the morning after the passage, on the eleventh day of the first month, as Archbishop Usher and others have very probably conjectured. On the thirteenth day they were sore of their wounds, on the fourteenth they recovered, and on the even of that day kept the passover. _Make th... [ Continue Reading ]
_Joshua circumcised the children of Israel_ That is, he caused them to be circumcised, namely, such of them as were uncircumcised. And because it was to be done speedily, the passover approaching, it was necessary to use many hands in the business. Nor was it difficult to find them, as it did not si... [ Continue Reading ]
_All that came out of Egypt that were males died_ This is to be restrained to such as were then above twenty years old, and such as were guilty of the rebellion mentioned Numbers 14., as it is expressed Joshua 5:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
_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 time, with his ordinance, on account of the unsettledness of their state, and their frequent removes w... [ Continue Reading ]
_Till all the people were consumed_ All the six hundred thousand fighting men that came out of Egypt, except Joshua and Caleb. The Hebrew word הגוי, _hagoi_, here rendered _people_, commonly signifies the Gentiles, and some have thought it is here used to signify that they were unworthy the name of... [ Continue Reading ]
_Their children them Joshua circumcised_ This God now required to be done, 1st, As a testimony of his reconciliation to the people, and that he would not further impute their parents' rebellion to them, but now permit them to _enter into his rest._ See Num 14:29 to Num 35:2 d, Because one great impe... [ Continue Reading ]
_Till they were whole_ Free from that pain and soreness which circumcision caused. It was certainly 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.... [ Continue Reading ]
_The reproach of Egypt_ That is, uncircumcision, which was both in truth, and in the opinion of the Jews, a matter of great reproach. And although this was a reproach common to most nations of the world, yet it is particularly called _the reproach of Egypt_, either, 1st, Because the other neighbouri... [ Continue Reading ]
_The children of Israel kept the passover_ Which was their third passover: the first was in Egypt, Exodus 12.; the second at mount Sinai, Numbers 9.; the third here; for in their wilderness travels, these and several other sacrifices were neglected, Amos 5:25. While they were in the wilderness, they... [ Continue Reading ]
_They eat of the old corn_ The corn of the last year, which the inhabitants of those parts had left in their barns, being fled into their strong cities, or other remoter parts. _On the morrow_ That is, on the sixteenth day; for the passover was killed between the two evenings of the fourteenth day,... [ Continue Reading ]
_The manna ceased_ Which God now withheld, to show that manna was not an ordinary production of nature, but an extraordinary and special gift of God to supply their necessity: and because God would not be prodigal of his favours, by working miracles where ordinary means were sufficient. _The morrow_... [ Continue Reading ]
_When Joshua was by Jericho_ Hebrew, _in Jericho;_ that is, in the territory adjoining to it; whither he went to view those parts, and discern the fittest places for his attempt upon Jericho. _A man_ One in the appearance of a man. _With his sword drawn_ In readiness to fight, not, as Joshua thought... [ Continue Reading ]
_As captain of the Lord's host_ Captain of this people, and I will conduct and assist thee and them in this great undertaking. Now this person was evidently not a created angel, but the Son of God, who went along with the Israelites in this expedition, as their chief and captain. And this appears, 1... [ Continue Reading ]
_From off thy foot_ In token of reverence and subjection. _Holy _ Consecrated by my presence. The very same order which God gave to Moses at the bush, when he was sending him to bring Israel out of Egypt, he here gives to Joshua for the confirming his faith, that as he had been with Moses, so he wou... [ Continue Reading ]