Joshua 5:2-4

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:4

After they came out from Egypt. Rather " on their journey from Egypt." See next verse, where the same words are translated "as they came out." read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:2

Make thee sharp knives - Render rather as marg., and compare marginal reference and note. Knives of flint or stone were in fact used for circumcision, and retained for that and other sacred purposes, even after iron had become in common use. The rendering of the margin is adopted by almost all ancient versions, by most commentators, and by the fathers generally, who naturally regarded circumcision performed by Joshua and by means of knives of stone or rock, as symbolic of the true circumcision... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:3

The hill of the foreskins - i. e. the hill where the foreskins, the emblem of all worldly and carnal affections, were buried. (Compare Colossians 2:11-13; Colossians 3:1-6.) read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:4-7

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 Kadesh (compare the marginal reference). These would have been circumcised before they left Egypt, and there would still survive of them more than a quarter of a million of thirty-eight years old and upward.The statements of these verses are of a general kind. The “forty years” of Joshua 5:6 is a round... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:2

Joshua 5:2. 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 thee sharp knives Or, knives of flints, as the original חרבות צרים , charboth tzurim, more properly signifies, and is translated by Maimonides. These stones might be found in... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:3

Joshua 5:3. 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 signify by what hand the operation was performed. Fathers, mothers, relations, friends, might any of them perform, as well as the priests or Levites. Although it be not mentioned, it is... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:4

Joshua 5:4. 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 14:0., as it is expressed Joshua 5:6. read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:2-15

Camp at Gilgal (5:2-15)Israel’s camp at Gilgal became the centre for the battle campaign that was to follow. But before the people could receive the land God promised them in the covenant, they had to renew their covenant relation with him.During the previous forty years, the people of Israel had brought shame upon themselves through consistently being disobedient and unbelieving. They had even neglected the first requirement of the covenant, which was the circumcision of all newborn male... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 5:2

said. See note on Joshua 3:7 . again . the second time. Not repeated as an act on the person, but on the nation on a second occasion (compare for this usage Isaiah 11:11 and Jude 1:5 , implying that the rite was performed in Egypt. See verses: Joshua 5:4-7 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 5:4

men. Hebrew, plural of 'ish or 'enosh. App-14 . read more

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:4-7

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:2

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:3

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:4

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:2-15

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 5:2

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 5:4

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