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Text -- Joshua 5:1-10 (NET)
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5:1 When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they crossed , they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites .
A New Generation is Circumcised
5:2 At that time the Lord told Joshua , “Make flint knives and circumcise the Israelites once again .”
5:3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins .
5:4 This is why Joshua had to circumcise them: All the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt died on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt .
5:5 Now all the men who left were circumcised , but all the sons born on the journey through the desert after they left Egypt were uncircumcised .
5:6 Indeed , for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt , the ones who had disobeyed the Lord , died off. For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them , a land rich in milk and honey .
5:7 He replaced them with their sons , whom Joshua circumcised . They were uncircumcised ; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way .
5:8 When all the men had been circumcised , they stayed there in the camp until they had healed .
5:9 The Lord said to Joshua , “Today I have taken away the disgrace of Egypt from you.” So that place is called Gilgal even to this day .
5:10 So the Israelites camped in Gilgal and celebrated the Passover in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho .
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Circumcision |
Gilgal |
Joshua |
Israel |
Revivals |
KNIFE |
BEYOND |
SACRIFICE, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 2 |
FORESKIN |
Passover |
MILK |
Cowardice |
Canaanites |
Amorites |
MEDICINE |
Disobedience to God |
Gibeath Haaraloth |
Miracles |
Desert |
Galilee, Sea of |
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NET Notes: Jos 5:1 Heb “their heart[s] melted and there was no longer in them breathe because of the sons of Israel.”
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NET Notes: Jos 5:2 Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”...
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NET Notes: Jos 5:3 The name given to the place, Hill of the Foreskins was an obvious reminder of this important event.
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NET Notes: Jos 5:4 Heb “All the people who went out from Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the desert in the way when they went out from Egypt.”
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NET Notes: Jos 5:6 The word picture a land rich in milk and honey depicts the land as containing many grazing areas (which would produce milk) and flowering plants (whic...
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