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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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_forty years_ See Numbers 14:33; Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 2:7;
Deuteronomy 2:14.
a land that floweth with milk and honey
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_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...
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_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...
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_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._
No JFB commentary o...
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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...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 5
*CIRCUMCISION AND *PASSOVER – JOSHUA 5:1-...
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(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...
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US. — The first person is used here as in Joshua 4:23; Joshua 5:7.
The whole passage from Joshua 4:22 to Joshua 5:6 seems intended to be
the reply of the fathers to the
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כִּ֣י ׀ אַרְבָּעִ֣ים שָׁנָ֗ה הָלְכ֣וּ
בְנֵֽי ־יִשְׂרָאֵל֮...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Forty. Some copies of the Septuagint add, "two," as if the 40 years'
wandering in the desert, were to be dated from the time that the spies
discouraged the people, in the second year of their departur...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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FOR THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WALKED FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS,....
Wanting a few days, the round number is given: not forty two, as the
Septuagint version:
TILL ALL THE PEOPLE [THAT WERE] MEN OF WA...
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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till
all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were
consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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THE CIRCUMCISION OF THE PEOPLE...
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For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till
all the people that were men of war, mustered as being able to bear
arms in battle, WHICH CAME OUT OF EGYPT, WERE CONSUMED, BECAUS...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Joshua 5:6 children H1121 Israel H3478 walked H1980 (H8804) forty H705
years H8141 wilderness H4057 people H1471 men...
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‘ For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
until all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were
consumed because they did not obey the voice of YHWH, to whom Y...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 5:6 Scripture frequently describes Canaan as a
LAND FLOWING WITH MILK AND HONEY (see Exodus 13:5;...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Deuteronomy 1:3; Deuteronomy 2:14; Deuteronomy 2:7; Deuteronomy 8:4;...
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The people — The Hebrew word commonly signifies the Gentiles; so he
calls them, to note that they were unworthy the name of Israelites.
Shew them — That is, not give them so much as a sight of it, whi...