Chapter
5
- 5:1
- And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites,
which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings
of the Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD
had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of
Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted,
neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children
of Israel.
- 5:2
- At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives,
and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
- 5:3
- And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children
of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
- 5:4
- And this is the cause 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 by the way, after they came
out of Egypt.
- 5:5
- Now 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, them they had not circumcised.
- 5:6
- For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
till all the people that were men of war, which came out of
Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the
LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not shew them the
land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would
give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
- 5:7
- And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them
Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they
had not circumcised them by the way.
- 5:8
- And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all
the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till
they were whole.
- 5:9
- And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away
the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the
place is called Gilgal unto this day.
- 5:10
- And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains
of Jericho.
- 5:11
- And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow
after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the
selfsame day.
- 5:12
- And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of
the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel
manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of
Canaan that year.
- 5:13
- And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man
over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua
went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our
adversaries?
- 5:14
- And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD
am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and
did worship, and said unto him, What saith my Lord unto his
servant?
- 5:15
- And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose
thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest
is holy. And Joshua did so.
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