Joshua 5:4

Revised Version 1885

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

Cross References

Numbers 14:22

because all those men which have seen my glory, and my signs, which I wrought in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

1 Corinthians 10:5

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

Deuteronomy 2:14

And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as the LORD sware unto 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 him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

Joshua 5:5

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