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Joshua 5:7

in Joshua 5

And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

KJV

And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

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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)

To ratify the covenant between God and them, whereof circumcision was a sign and seal, to assure them that God would now make good his covenant, in giving them this land; and to oblige them to perform all the duties to which that covenant bound them, as soon as they came into Canaan, Exod. xii, 25 Lev. xxiii, 10 Num. xv, 2.

The words behind it

15 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.

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • בְּנֵיהֶם֙children their

    beneihemH1121 →4930 times

  • הֵקִ֣יםhe raised up

    hekimH6965 →628 times

  • תַּחְתָּ֔םin place of them

    tachtamH8478 →505 times

  • אֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • מָ֣לhe circumcised

    malH4135 →37 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֑עַJoshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • עֲרֵלִ֣יםuncircumcised

    ʾarelimH6189 →

  • הָי֔וּthey were

    hayuH1961 →3559 times

  • כִּ֛יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • לֹא־not

    lo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • מָ֥לוּpeople had circumcised

    maluH4135 →37 times

  • אוֹתָ֖ם<obj.> them

    ʾotamH853 →10935 times

  • בַּדָּֽרֶךְ׃on the way

    badarekhH1870 →707 times

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

Related verses

2 in all, six open

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

    Deuteronomy 1:39

    And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 14:3

      Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Isaiah 7:15–16

      By the time He knows enough to reject evil and choose good, He will be eating curds and honey.

    • Numbers 14:31

      But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

    • Jonah 4:11

      So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”

    • Romans 9:11

      Yet before the twins were born or had done anything good or bad, in order that God’s plan of election might stand,

  • Through

    Numbers 14:31

    But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 1:39

      And the little ones you said would become captives—your children who on that day did not know good from evil—will enter the land that I will give them, and they will possess it.

    • Psalms 106:24

      They despised the pleasant land; they did not believe His promise.

    • Numbers 26:64

      Among all these, however, there was not one who had been numbered by Moses and Aaron the priest when they counted the Israelites in the Wilderness of Sinai.

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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