Joshua:5

---

Seeker Overlay ON

* And it came to pass , when all the kings of the Amorites , who on the side of Jordan westward , and all the kings of the Canaanites , who by the sea , heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel , until we had passed over , that their heart melted , neither was there spirit in them any more , because of the children of Israel . * At that time the LORD said to Joshua , Make thee sharp knives , and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time . (note :)sharp …: or , knives of flints (:note ) * And Joshua made him sharp knives , and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins . (note :)sharp …: or , knives of flints (:note )the hill …: or , Gibeah –haaraloth * And this the cause why Joshua did circumcise : All the people that came out of Egypt , males , all the men of war , died in the wilderness by the way , after they came out of Egypt . * Now all the people that came out were circumcised : but all the people born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth from Egypt , they had not circumcised . * For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness , till all the people men of war , who came out of Egypt , were consumed , because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD : to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land , which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us , a land that floweth with milk and honey . * And their children , he raised up in their stead , them Joshua circumcised : for they were uncircumcised , because they had not circumcised them by the way . * And it came to pass , when they had done circumcising all the people , that they abode in their places in the camp , till they were healed . (note :)they had …: Hebrews . the people had made an end to be circumcised (:note ) * And the LORD said to Joshua , This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you . Therefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day . (note :)Gilgal : that is Rolling (:note ) * And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal , and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho . * And they ate of the old grain of the land on the next day after the passover , unleavened cakes , and roasted in the same day . * And the manna ceased on the next day after they had eaten of the old grain of the land ; neither had the children of Israel manna any more ; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year . * And it came to pass , when Joshua was by Jericho , that he lifted up his eyes and looked , and , behold , there stood a man opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand : and Joshua went to him , and said to him , thou for us , or for our adversaries ? * And he said , Nay ; but captain of the host of the LORD am I now come . And Joshua fell on his face to the earth , and worshipped , and said to him , What saith my lord to his servant ? (note :)captain : or , prince (:note ) * And the captain of the LORD ’S host said to Joshua , Loose thy shoe from off thy foot ; for the place on which thou standest holy . And Joshua did so .

---