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Joshua 5:4 KJV
Joshua · chapter 5 · verse 4
And 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.Joshua 5:4 · King James Version
Joshua 5:4 in context
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.
5Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
6For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- circumcisemûwlto cut shortH4135 →
- wildernessmidbâra pastureH4057 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- causedâbâra wordH1697 →
- EgyptMitsrayimMitsrajimH4714 →
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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