Joshua 5:15

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:15

‘ And the Captain of YHWH's host said to Joshua, “Put off your shoe from off your foot, for the place on which you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.’ Compare for this incident Exodus 3:5 where Moses too was told to remove his shoes for the same reason. And like Moses Joshua, aware that he was in a heavenly presence, and that nothing earthly must contaminate the place, removed his shoes. His clothing had been ‘sanctified’ prior to crossing the Jordan (Joshua 3:5). But while YHWH was... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:13-15

Joshua 5:13 to Joshua 6:27 . The Capture of Jericho.— The narrative begins at Joshua 5:13; Joshua 6:1 is an insertion (observe that RV places it in brackets), so that Joshua 6:2 should immediately follow Joshua 5:15. The captain of Yahweh’ s host is therefore Yahweh Himself. In the rest of the chapter we have a composite narrative, so skilfully compiled that at first sight there is not much fault to find. Closer inspection, however, shows that there are two signals for the fall of the walls—... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 5:15

Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, in token of reverence and subjection: see on Exodus 3:5. The place is holy, consecrated by my presence; which when it was withdrawn, it was no more holy than any other place, the reason of its holiness being removed. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 5:13-15

CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 5:13. By Jericho] Lit., in Jericho. Ewald gives the meaning, “the immediate neighbourhood, the closest connection with another thing, and, as it were, the act of entering into it.” This should have prevented the remark, “The place may have been near Gilgal.… ‘Near Gilgal’ would be equivalent to ‘by Jericho.’ ” Joshua had evidently gone to investigate the city, and was hear to it when the vision occurred. Joshua 5:14. And did worship] “The words are not only used in... read more

C.I. Scofield

Scofield's Reference Notes - Joshua 5:15

holy Trans. "consecrated," Joshua 6:19 in R.V. "holy." 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 5:13-15

Joshua 5:13-15Nay; but as Captain of the host of the Lord. The warrior ChristianI. The special significance of this vision to Joshua. “The Lord’s host” does not primarily allude to those Israelite armies encamped beside the overflowing waters of the Jordan, but to other and invisible hosts encamped all around on those heights, though no ear ever heard the call of the sentries at their posts of duty, or saw the sheen of their swords flashing in the sunlight, or beheld their marshalled ranks.... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 5:15

Jos 5:15 And the captain of the LORD’S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy. And Joshua did so. Ver. 15. Loose thy shoes. ] Deny thyself wholly, and put thy confidence in my power and prowess. Frustra nititur qui Christo non innititur. Among the Turks no man may come into the church, besides the Grand Seignior, with his shoes on, but must leave them at the door, or give them to their servants to keep. a a Grand Sign. Serag.,... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Joshua 5:15

Loose: Exodus 3:5, Acts 7:32, Acts 7:33, 2 Peter 1:18 And Joshua: Many persons have been puzzled to know what was intended by this extraordinary appearance of the angel to Joshua, because they supposed that the whole business ends with the chapter; whereas it is continued in the succeeding one, the first verse of which is a mere parenthesis, simply relating to the state of Jericho at the time when Joshua was favoured with this encouraging vision; by which he was shewn that their help came... read more

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