Joshua 5:4

Holman Christian Standard Bible

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males — all the men of war — had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

none of the men who have seen My glory and the signs I performed in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tested Me these 10 times and did not obey Me,

1 Corinthians 10:5

But God was not pleased with most of them, for they were struck down in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed the Zered Valley was 38 years until the entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the Lord had sworn to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“When all the fighting men had died among the people,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Though all the people who came out were circumcised, none of the people born in the wilderness along the way were circumcised after they had come out of Egypt.