Joshua 5:2-8

The New Generation Circumcised

2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make s flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time." 3 So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth. 1 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them: t all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the men of war, had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt. 5 Though all the people who came out had been circumcised, yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised. 6 For the people of Israel walked u forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished, because they did not obey the voice of the Lord; the Lord v swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the Lord had sworn to their fathers to give to us, w a land flowing with milk and honey. 7 So it was x their children, whom he raised up in their place, that Joshua circumcised. For they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised on the way.

8 When the circumcising of the whole nation was finished, they remained in their places in the camp until they were healed.

  1. Cross References
    Exodus 4:25
    Then Zipporah took a flint and cut off her son's foreskin and touched Moses' feet with it and said, "Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me!
  2. Cross References
    Numbers 14:29
    Your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness,...
    Numbers 26:64 - 65
    But among these there was not one of those list...
    Deuteronomy 2:16
    So as soon as all the men of war had perished a...
    Psalms 106:26
    Therefore he raised his hand and swore to them ...
    1 Corinthians 10:5
    Nevertheless, with most of them God was not ple...
    Hebrews 3:17
    And with whom was he provoked for forty years? ...
  3. Cross References
    Numbers 14:33
    And your children shall be shepherds in the wil...
    Deuteronomy 1:3
    In the fortieth year, on the first day of the e...
    Deuteronomy 2:7
    For the Lord your God has blessed you in all th...
    Deuteronomy 2:14
    And the time from our leaving Kadesh-barnea unt...
    Deuteronomy 8:4
    Your clothing did not wear out on you and your ...
    Psalms 95:10
    For forty years I loathed that generation and s...
  4. Cross References
    Numbers 14:23
    Shall see the land that I swore to give to their fathers. And none of those who despised me shall see it.
    Psalms 95:11
    Therefore I swore in my wrath, "They shall not enter my rest.
    Hebrews 3:11
    As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter my rest.'
  5. Cross References
    Exodus 3:8
    And I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.
  6. Cross References
    Numbers 14:31
    But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land that you have rejected.
    Deuteronomy 1:39
    And as for your little ones, who you said would become a prey, and your children, who today have no knowledge of good or evil, they shall go in there. And to them I will give it, and they shall possess it.
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