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Joshua 5:8

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And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

KJV

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 whole.

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This verse in Joshua 5

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

They abode - in the camp, till they were whole - This required several days; see the notes on Gen 34:24, Gen 34:25. Sir J. Chardin informs us that when adults were circumcised they were obliged to keep their beds for about three weeks, or at least during that time they are not able to walk about but with great difficulty. The account he had from several renegadoes, who had received circumcision among the Mohammedans.

This site's exposition

when they had done circumcising all the people

on Joshua 5:8-9

They abide in the camp till they are whole, which leaves an entire army unable to fight, a few miles from a walled city, in enemy country. Genesis 34:25 records what happened the last time men were caught in that condition. Then God names the day, this day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you, and the place is called Gilgal from the rolling.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

But it has been calculated that the proportion between those already circumcised (under twenty when the doom was pronounced) and those to be circumcised, was one to four, and consequently the whole ceremony could easily have been performed in a day.

The words behind it

11 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.

  • וַיְהִ֛יand it was

    vayhiH1961 →3559 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁר־just when

    kaasher-H834 →5497 times

  • תַּ֥מּוּthey had finished

    tamuH8552 →63 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַגּ֖וֹיthe nation

    hagoyH1471 →561 times

  • לְהִמּ֑וֹלto be circumcised

    lehimolH4135 →37 times

  • וַיֵּשְׁב֥וּand they remained

    vaiyeshevuH3427 →1079 times

  • תַחְתָּ֛םin place their

    tachtamH8478 →505 times

  • בַּֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הin the camp

    bamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • עַ֥דuntil

    ʾadH5704 →1261 times

  • חֲיוֹתָֽם׃ פlived they

    chayotamH2421 →282 times

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

Related verses

1 in all, six open

The walk

5 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

    Genesis 34:25

    Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 49:5–7

      Simeon and Levi are brothers; their swords are weapons of violence.

    • Genesis 29:33–34

      Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.

    • Proverbs 4:16

      For they cannot sleep unless they do evil; they are deprived of slumber until they make someone fall.

    • Proverbs 6:34–35

      For jealousy enrages a husband, and he will show no mercy in the day of vengeance.

    • 2 Chronicles 32:25

      But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

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.
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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