Joshua 5:2

New Century Version

At that time the Lord said to Joshua, “Make knives from flint stones and circumcise the Israelites.”

Cross References

Exodus 4:25

But Zipporah took a flint knife and circumcised her son. Taking the skin, she touched Moses’ feet with it and said to him, “You are a bridegroom of blood to me.”

Romans 2:29

A person is a Jew only if he is a Jew inside; true circumcision is done in the heart by the Spirit, not by the written law. Such a person gets praise from God rather than from people.

Romans 4:11

Abraham was circumcised to show that he was right with God through faith before he was circumcised. So Abraham is the father of all those who believe but are not circumcised; he is the father of all believers who are accepted as being right with God.

Deuteronomy 10:16

Give yourselves completely to serving him, and do not be stubborn any longer.

Deuteronomy 30:6

The Lord your God will prepare you and your descendants to love him with your whole being so that you will live.

Colossians 2:11

Also in Christ you had a different kind of circumcision, a circumcision not done by hands. It was through Christ’s circumcision, that is, his death, that you were made free from the power of your sinful self.

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made knives from flint stones and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.