Joshua 5:4

Lighthouse Bible 2006

And this is the reason why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness on the way, after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not heard and obeyed my voice;

1 Corinthians 10:5

But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the time in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered, was thirty eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were destroyed out from among the host, as the LORD swore to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

So it came to pass, when all the men of war were consumed and dead from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

And Joshua made himself sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness on the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.