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Joshua 5:6

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For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation’s men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

KJV

For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

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This verse in Joshua 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

John Damascene

ORTHODOX FAITH 4.25 · Written before 749.

on Joshua 5:4-7

The circumcision was given to Abraham before the law, after the blessings and after the promise, as a sign to set him and those born of him and those of his household apart from the Gentiles in whose midst he was living. And this is obvious, because, when Israel spent forty years alone by themselves in the desert without mixing with any other nation, all those who were born in the desert were not circumcised. However, when Joshua brought them across the Jordan, they were circumcised and a second law of circumcision was made.

This site's exposition

Make thee sharp knives

on Joshua 5:2-7

The covenant sign had lapsed for the whole of the wilderness, and the text says so plainly at verse 5, that those born by the way had not been circumcised. Nobody explains why it stopped, and the chapter gives the fact without a reason. The generation that carried the sign died in the desert and the generation that lacked it is the one taking the land, so the first act inside the country is to put the mark of Genesis 17 back on the people.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

The people - The Hebrew word commonly signifies the Gentiles; so he calls them, to note that they were unworthy the name of Israelites. Shew them - That is, not give them so much as a sight of it, which he granted to Moses, much less the possession.

The words behind it

38 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • כִּ֣י׀for

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • אַרְבָּעִ֣יםforty

    ʾarbaimH705 →136 times

  • שָׁנָ֗הyear[s]

    shanahH8141 →877 times

  • הָלְכ֣וּthey had walked

    halekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בְנֵֽי־[the] people of

    venei-H1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵל֮Israel

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • בַּמִּדְבָּר֒in the wilderness

    bamidbarH4057 →270 times

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • תֹּ֨םwas finished

    tomH8552 →63 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַגּ֜וֹיthe nation

    hagoyH1471 →561 times

  • אַנְשֵׁ֤י[the] men of

    ʾansheiH582 →566 times

  • הַמִּלְחָמָה֙<the> war

    hamilchamahH4421 →320 times

  • הַיֹּצְאִ֣יםwho came out

    haiyotzeimH3318 →1067 times

  • מִמִּצְרַ֔יִםfrom Egypt

    mimitzrayimH4714 →641 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwho

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • לֹֽא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • שָׁמְע֖וּthey had listened

    shameuH8085 →1159 times

  • בְּק֣וֹלto [the] voice of

    bekolH6963 →506 times

  • יְהוָ֑הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhom

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֤עhe had sworn

    nishba'H7650 →186 times

  • יְהוָה֙Yahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לָהֶ֔םto <the> them

    lahem

  • לְבִלְתִּ֞יto not

    leviltiH1115 →112 times

  • הַרְאוֹתָ֣םto let to see them

    harotamH7200 →1300 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֗רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֩which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נִשְׁבַּ֨עhe had sworn

    nishba'H7650 →186 times

  • יְהוָ֤הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • לַֽאֲבוֹתָם֙to fathers their

    laavotamH1 →1212 times

  • לָ֣תֶתto give

    latetH5414 →2011 times

  • לָ֔נוּto <the> us

    lanu

  • אֶ֛רֶץa land

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • זָבַ֥תflowing of

    zavatH2100 →

  • חָלָ֖בmilk

    chalavH2461 →

  • וּדְבָֽשׁ׃and honey

    udevashH1706 →

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Numbers 14:23not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.11 worksDeuteronomy 2:14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.9 worksHebrews 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”6 worksDeuteronomy 2:7Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these forty years, and you have lacked nothing.5 worksDeuteronomy 1:3In the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses proclaimed to the Israelites all that the LORD had commanded him concerning them.5 worksPsalms 95:10–11For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”5 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Numbers 14:29–35Your bodies will fall in this wilderness—all who were numbered in the census, everyone twenty years of age or older—because you have grumbled against Me.4 worksExodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey—the home of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.4 worksDeuteronomy 8:4Your clothing did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.3 worksEzekiel 20:15Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands—3 worksJeremiah 2:2“Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.3 worksDeuteronomy 27:3Write on them all the words of this law when you have crossed over to enter the land that the LORD your God is giving you, a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your fathers, has promised you.3 worksExodus 33:3Go up to a land flowing with milk and honey. But I will not go with you, because you are a stiff-necked people; otherwise, I might destroy you on the way.”3 worksEzekiel 20:6On that day I swore to bring them out of the land of Egypt into a land that I had searched out for them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands.3 worksExodus 3:17And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’2 worksJudges 11:16But when Israel came up out of Egypt, they traveled through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh.2 worksJoshua 24:7So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.2 worksNumbers 13:27And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!2 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Hebrews 3:11

    So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:34–35

      When the LORD heard your words, He grew angry and swore an oath, saying,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 2:7

    Indeed, the LORD your God has blessed you in all the work of your hands. He has watched over your journey through this vast wilderness. The LORD your God has been with you these…

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 9:21

      For forty years You sustained them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.

    • Luke 22:35

      Then Jesus asked them, “When I sent you out without purse or bag or sandals, did you lack anything?” “Nothing,” they answered.

    • Deuteronomy 8:2–4

      Remember that these forty years the LORD your God led you all the way in the wilderness, so that He might humble you and test you in order to know what was in your…

    • Deuteronomy 29:5

      For forty years I led you in the wilderness, yet your clothes and sandals did not wear out.

    • Psalms 90:17

      May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish for us the work of our hands— yes, establish the work of our hands!

  • Through

    Numbers 14:23

    not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.

    it leads to

    • Ezekiel 20:15

      Moreover, with an uplifted hand I swore to them in the wilderness that I would not bring them into the land that I had given them—a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory…

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Numbers 32:11

      ‘Because they did not follow Me wholeheartedly, not one of the men twenty years of age or older who came out of Egypt will see the land that I swore to give Abraham, Isaac,…

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 5 →

This page draws on John Damascene, ORTHODOX FAITH 4.25; John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament; Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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