Joshua 5:4

God's Word

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the soldiers had died on the way through the desert after they left Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of the people who saw my glory and the miraculous signs I did in Egypt and in the desert will see the land which I promised their ancestors. They have tested me now ten times and refused to obey me.

1 Corinthians 10:5

Yet, God was not pleased with most of them, so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

Thirty-eight years passed from the time we left Kadesh Barnea until we crossed the Zered River. During that time all our soldiers from that generation died, as the Lord had sworn they would.

Deuteronomy 2:16

When the last of these soldiers had died,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the men of Israel at the Hill of Circumcision.

Joshua 5:5

The men who left Egypt had been circumcised. However, the men born later, on the way through the desert, were not circumcised.