Joshua 5:4

Modern King James Version

And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised. All the people that came out of Egypt, the males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the wayside, after they came out of Egypt.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

Because all those men who 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 listened to My voice,

1 Corinthians 10:5

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

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we had come over the brook Zered were thirty-eight years; until the end of all the generation. The men of war were destroyed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah swore to them.

Deuteronomy 2:16

And it happened, when all the men of war had finished dying from among the people,

Joshua 5:3

And Joshua made sharp knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

For all the people who came out were circumcised. But all the people born in the wilderness by the wayside, as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised.