Old Testament · History
Joshua chapter 5
Press Space to select this verse for copying or sharing. Up and down arrows move between verses.
When all the kings west of the Jordan and all the kings along the coast heard that Yahweh had dried up the Jordan River for the Israelites until they had crossed over, . They completely to face the Israelites.At that time Yahweh said to Joshua, “Make and the Israelite men again, a second time.”So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at .Here’s why Joshua circumcised them: Every male who had left Egypt — all the — had died in the wilderness along the way after leaving Egypt.All the people who had left Egypt had been circumcised, but none of the people born in the wilderness during the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.The Israelites had wandered in the wilderness for until the entire generation of fighting men who had left Egypt had died off — because they hadn’t . Yahweh had sworn that he would never let them see the land he had promised their ancestors he would give us, a land .So it was their sons — the ones he raised up to replace them — that Joshua circumcised. They had never been circumcised, because no one had circumcised them during the journey.When the whole nation had been circumcised, they stayed where they were in camp until they had healed.Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Today I have the from you.” So that place has been called ever since.The Israelites camped at Gilgal and celebrated on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, on the .The day after Passover, on that very day, they ate some of the produce of the land: and .The stopped the day after they ate the produce of the land. There was no more manna for the Israelites. That year, they ate from the crops of the land of Canaan.When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a in his hand. Joshua walked up to him and asked, “Are you on our side, or on our enemies’ side?”“Neither,” he said. “I have come as the .” Joshua and asked him, “What does my master want to say to his servant?”The commander of Yahweh’s army said to Joshua, “, because the place where you’re standing .” And Joshua did so.