Jos 5:1-4 - Commentary

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Text -- Joshua 5:1-4 (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.

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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:

· Amorites members of a pre-Israel Semitic tribe from Mesopotamia

· Canaanites the region ofeast Mediterranean coastal land from Arvad (modern Lebanon) south to Gaza,the coast land from Mt. Carmel north to the Orontes River

· Egypt descendants of Mizraim

· Gibeath-haaraloth the place of Israel's first encampment west of the Jordan River

· Gibeath-Haaraloth the place of Israel's first encampment west of the Jordan River

· Israel a citizen of Israel.,a member of the nation of Israel

· Jordan the river that flows from Lake Galilee to the Dead Sea,a river that begins at Mt. Hermon, flows south through Lake Galilee and on to its end at the Dead Sea 175 km away (by air)

· Joshua a son of Eliezer; the father of Er; an ancestor of Jesus,the son of Nun and successor of Moses,son of Nun of Ephraim; successor to Moses,a man: owner of the field where the ark stopped,governor of Jerusalem under King Josiah,son of Jehozadak; high priest in the time of Zerubbabel

· sea the Dead Sea, at the southern end of the Jordan River,the Mediterranean Sea,the Persian Gulf south east of Babylon,the Red Sea

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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.”

NET Notes: Jos 5:2 Heb “return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.” The Hebrew term שׁוּב (shuv, “return”...

NET Notes: Jos 5:3 The name given to the place, Hill of the Foreskins was an obvious reminder of this important event.

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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