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Joshua 5:2 KJV
Joshua · chapter 5 · verse 2
At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.Joshua 5:2 · King James Version
Joshua 5:2 in context
1And 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.
2At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
3And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- circumcisemûwlto cut shortH4135 →
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- knivescherebdroughtH2719 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- sharptsûwrproperly, a cliffH6697 →
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A vast show, no doubt, the numerous camp of Israel made in the plains of Jericho, where now they had pitched their tents. Who can count the dust of Jacob? That which had long been the church in the wilderness has now come up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved, and looks forth as the morning, fair as the…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-9