Joshua 5:10 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 5:10-12

We may well imagine that the people of Canaan were astonished, and that when they observed the motions of the enemy they could not but think them very strange. When soldiers take the field they are apt to think themselves excused from religious exercises (they have not time nor thought to attend to them), yet Joshua opens the campaign with one act of devotion after another. What was afterwards said to another Joshua might truly be said to this, Hear now, O Joshua! thou and thy fellows that sit... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:10

And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal ,.... Not after their circumcision, but before, and where they continued encamped during that, and until the passover had been kept by them; this was little more than a mile from Jericho; see Gill on Joshua 4:19 , and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even ; exactly as it was ordered to be observed, and was observed when first kept, Exodus 12:6 , in the plains of Jericho : a proper place both for their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:10

Kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month - If the ceremony of circumcision was performed on the eleventh day of the month, as many think; and if the sore was at the worst on the thirteenth, and the passover was celebrated on the fourteenth, the people being then quite recovered; it must have been rather a miraculous than a natural healing. We have already seen from the account of Sir J. Chardin, that it required about three weeks to restore to soundness adults... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:10

Verse 10 10.And the children of Israel. kept the Passover, etc Here it is stated that the Passover was celebrated on the regular day, although there are some who think that the words used imply that the practice was unusual. They hence infer that, like circumcision, it had been interrupted for a period of forty years, as it would have been absurd for persons uncircumcised to take part in a sacred feast. To confirm this view, they observe that we do not read of the Passover having been observed... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:6-11

The Two Sacraments of the Old Covenant Circumcision and the passover were the two sacraments of the old covenant. The first set forth the truth that enrolment among the people of God must be accompanied with the putting away of evil. The second represented the past deliverance from the bondage of Egypt, and the future deliverance from all the perils of the wilderness by entrance into Canaan, and the final possession of the land of promise. On the eve of the decisive conflict, God commands... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:9-10

Sacramental consecration of life. We may with advantage linger over the story of this chapter. It has lessons which will never die, and appeals which will never grow old. It is a testimony against a form of evil so common and so dangerous that all branches of the Church of Christ suffer from it. It brings before us the question of the neglect of sacraments, and the wisdom of repairing that neglect. To bring the chief points before us, observe first— I. WE ARE PRONE TO ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:10

EXPOSITION THE PASSOVER AND THE CESSATION OF THE MANNA .— And kept the passover. In reference to the question which has been discussed above, whether the passover was kept after the rebellion at Kadesh-Barnea, Keil notices, as a remarkable fact, that not only no mention of a passover as having been kept is found in the Pentateuch, after Numbers 9:1 , but there is not even any instance given of the law of sacrifice having been observed in the plains of Jericho; see... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:10-12

The passover and the cessation of manna. I. THE RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT MUST BE ATTENDED WITH THE OBSERVANCE OF ITS LAWS . When the Christian desires to return and to serve God after a period of disobedience and rebellion, he must prepare himself, by repentance and mortification, to feed on the flesh of the slain Lamb of God in the sacrament which He has ordained. Thus he makes a memorial of the death of Christ, through which alone he has obtained pardon; he... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:10

Joshua 5:10. The children of Israel kept the passover Which was their third passover: the first was in Egypt, Exodus 12:0.; the second at mount Sinai, Numbers 9:0.; 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 were denied the comfort of this ordinance, as a further token of God’s displeasure. But now God comforted them again, after the time that he had afflicted them. 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

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 5:10-12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:10

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:10

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:6-11

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:9-10

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:10

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 5:10-12

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 5:10

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:2-15

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