Joshua 5:4

Good News Translation

When the people of Israel left Egypt, all the males were already circumcised. However, during the forty years the people spent crossing the desert, none of the baby boys had been circumcised. Also, by the end of that time all the men who were of fighting age when they left Egypt had died because they had disobeyed the Lord. Just as he had sworn, they were not allowed to see the rich and fertile land that he had promised their ancestors.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of these people will live to enter that land. They have seen the dazzling light of my presence and the miracles that I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, but they have tried my patience over and over again and have refused to obey me.

1 Corinthians 10:5

But even then God was not pleased with most of them, and so their dead bodies were scattered over the desert.

Deuteronomy 2:14

This was thirty-eight years after we had left Kadesh Barnea. All the fighting men of that generation had died, as the Lord had said they would.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“After they had all died,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua did as the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.