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The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 5:1-9

The Circumcision of the People v. 1. And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of the Jordan westward, the mighty heathen nations which occupied chiefly the mountainous section of Canaan, for among these the Amorites were the strongest, and all the kings of the Canaanites which were by the sea, the heathen nations occupying the lowlands in the neighborhood of the Mediterranean Sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 5:1-15

4. The Dedication to the Holy WarJoshua 5:0a. The Effect of the Invasion on the Inhabitants of the LandJoshua 5:11And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites which were on the [other] side of [the] Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites which were by the sea, heard that the Lord [Jehovah] had dried up the waters of [the] Jordan from before the children [sons] of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted neither was there spirit in them any more,... read more

Frederick Brotherton Meyer

F.B. Meyer's 'Through the Bible' Commentary - Joshua 5:1-12

Renewing the Covenant with God Joshua 5:1-12 Evidently the people of Canaan realized that they were entering into conflict with God Almighty. This made their bitter resistance less excusable. But before Israel could go forward into the campaign, they must undergo that initial rite which from the days of Abraham had separated them unto God, Genesis 17:1-27 . The outbreak at Kadesh had practically annulled that relationship, which now must be renewed, Numbers 14:1-45 . Before we can serve... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 5:1-15

The effect on the people of this crossing of the Jordan is revealed in the words, "Their heart melted, neither was there any spirit in them any more." Therefore time must again be taken for matters distinctly of worship. During the forty years in the wilderness the rite of circumcision evidently had been neglected. There could be no triumphal progress until this had been corrected. Moreover, the nation, so far as its men were concerned, was now becoming a nation of soldiers who were to... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:9

Joshua 5:9 a. ‘And YHWH said to Joshua, “This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.” ’ The general idea was that circumcision had now finally made them a circumcised nation, as a free people within the covenant, in their own land. They were now YHWH’s people in YHWH’s land. “The reproach of Egypt” may signify: · That attitude of disobedient Israel which clung to Egypt (Exodus 16:3; Exodus 17:3; Numbers 11:5; Numbers 20:5; Numbers 21:5; Deuteronomy 1:27). Thus they were now... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 5:1-9

Joshua 5:2-1 Samuel : . Joshua Circumcises the Israelites.— Here we have an interesting but quite unhistorical account of the institution of circumcision. Circumcision (pp. 83, 99f.) is a prehistoric rite practised by many nations in antiquity and by the South Sea Islanders, African, and Australian aborigines in the present day. Here we have an attempt to date its origin in Israel from the entry into Palestine, while in Genesis 17* (P) its origin is dated from the command given by God to... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 5:9

The reproach of Egypt, i.e. uncircumcision, which was both in truth, and in the opinion of the Jews, a matter of great reproach, Genesis 34:14; 1 Samuel 14:6; 1 Samuel 17:26. And although this was a reproach common to most nations of the world, yet it is particularly called the reproach of Egypt; either, 1. Because the other neighbouring nations, being the children of Abraham by the concubines, are supposed to have been circumcised, which the Egyptians at this time were not, as may be gathered... read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 5:1-9

CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 5:2. Sharp knives] Marg. “knives of flints” (cf. Exodus 4:25). The reason for using stone knives may have been more on account of legal than of physical considerations. The use of iron was certainly forbidden in some covenant rites (cf. Exodus 20:25; Deuteronomy 27:5; chap. Joshua 8:31). [“Among the additions of the LXX. at the end of this book is the curious statement after chap. Joshua 24:30 : ‘There they placed with him, in the tomb where they buried him the knives of... read more

Charles Simeon

Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Joshua 5:8-10

DISCOURSE: 246ISRAEL’S FIRST PROCEEDINGS IN CANAANJoshua 5:8-10. It came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.THERE... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 5:1-15

Chapter 5Now in chapter five we read where all of the adult males were at this point circumcised. It was a rite that they did not follow while they were in the wilderness. So that those who were born in the wilderness, now were men, did not go through the rite of circumcision. But now that they are to enter into the land, the circumcision was always a type of the cutting away of the heart after the flesh. God wanted a people whose heart was after the Spirit. So it was a symbolic act. God said,... read more