Joshua 5:4

New Living Translation

Joshua had to circumcise them because all the men who were old enough to fight in battle when they left Egypt had died in the wilderness.

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

not one of these people will ever enter that land. They have all seen my glorious presence and the miraculous signs I performed both in Egypt and in the wilderness, but again and again they have tested me by refusing to listen to my voice.

1 Corinthians 10:5

Yet God was not pleased with most of them, and their bodies were scattered in the wilderness.

Deuteronomy 2:14

“Thirty-eight years passed from the time we first left Kadesh-barnea until we finally crossed the Zered Brook! By then, all the men old enough to fight in battle had died in the wilderness, as the Lord had vowed would happen.

Deuteronomy 2:16

“When all the men of fighting age had died,

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Joshua 5:5

Those who left Egypt had all been circumcised, but none of those born after the Exodus, during the years in the wilderness, had been circumcised.