ヨシュア記 5:1 JC

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:1-15

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 distinctly of worship. During the forty years in the wilderness the rite of circumcision evidently had been neglected. There could be no triumphal progress until this had been corrected. Moreover, the nation, so far as its men were concerned, was now becoming a nation of soldiers who were to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:1

Commentary on The Book of Joshua - chapters 5-8. In this section the circumcision of the men of Israel is accomplished, followed by the observance of the Passover. Then commences the initial parts of the invasion. First Jericho is taken, and then a contingent moves up the pass to capture Ai, only to be driven back because of their arrogance in taking only a limited number of soldiers for the purpose. As a result the sin of Achan is discovered in that he had kept for himself what had been... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:1-9

Joshua 5:2-1 Samuel : . 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 nations in antiquity and by the South Sea Islanders, African, and Australian aborigines in the present day. Here we have an attempt to date its origin in Israel from the entry into Palestine, while in Genesis 17* (P) its origin is dated from the command given by God to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 5:1

The Amorites and the Canaanites are mentioned for all the rest, as being the chief of them for number, and power, and courage. Westward: this is added to distinguish them from the other Amorites, eastward from Jordan, whom Moses had subdued. All the kings of the Canaanites; so the proper place of this nation was on both sides of Jordan. By the sea; the midland sea, all along the coast of it, which was the chief seat of that people, though divers colonies of them were come into and settled in... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 5:1

PREPARATION FOR THE LORD’S WARCRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 5:1. Amorites] Deriv. from Amar = “high,” “lofty.” The people were “dwellers in the mountains” (cf. Numbers 13:29, and chap. Joshua 11:3). Kurtz and Fürst think that the word has an allusion to the large stature of the race: “lofty, high-towering, gigantic” men. Sometimes, and apparently in this verse, the term Amorites is applied to the inhabitants of the land generally. In chap. Joshua 10:5, the king of Jerusalem, who ruled over Jebusites,... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 5:1-9

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 of iron was certainly forbidden in some covenant rites (cf. Exodus 20:25; Deuteronomy 27:5; chap. Joshua 8:31). [“Among the additions of the LXX. at the end of this book is the curious statement after chap. Joshua 24:30 : ‘There they placed with him, in the tomb where they buried him the knives of... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:1-15

Chapter 5Now 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 wilderness, now were men, did not go through the rite of circumcision. But now that they are to enter into the land, the circumcision was always a type of the cutting away of the heart after the flesh. God wanted a people whose heart was after the Spirit. So it was a symbolic act. God said,... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:1-15

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 they struck off flints, whose edges are very sharp. Infants were healed in three days, but great soreness followed with men; they could not walk, as in Joshua 5:8. The place was afterwards called Gilgal; that is, rolling away of reproach. See more on Genesis 17:12. Joshua 5:12 . The manna... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 5:1

Joshua 5:1Their heart melted . . . because of the children of Israel.Divine control over allKings and princes, captains and nobles, are most perfectly under the control of God; not only their counsels and operations, but their very spirits are subject to the influence of His secret and all-pervading dominion; they are restrained by cowardice, or incited by courage; intimidated by fear, or emboldened by valour, as best may promote the purposes of Providence and the interests of the Church.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 5:1

Jos 5:1 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 sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. Ver. 1. Heard that the Lord, &c. ] Aι βλαβαι ποδωκεις : Ill news is swift of foot, and, like ill... read more

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:1-15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:1

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:1-9

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 5:1

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 5:1

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 5:1-9

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:1-15

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:1-15

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 5:1

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 5:1

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