Joshua 5

This important chapter recounts:

1. The near-panic that settled over the Canaanites (Joshua 5:1);
2. The circumcision of the males of the Israelites, a rite that had been neglected for many of them during the wilderness wanderings (Joshua 5:2-9);
3. The third instance of Israel's observing the Passover (Joshua 5:10-12); and
4. The great Christophany in which "the Captain of the Hosts of Jehovah appeared to Joshua" (Joshua 5:13-15).