Joshua 5:6

For forty years the Israelites traveled through the wilderness until all the men of fighting age when they left Egypt had died, because they had not done what the Lord had told them to do. So the Lord had vowed that he would not let them see the land he had promised their forefathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

5They had all been circumcised when they left Egypt, but those born on the journey since then had not.

7The Lord replaced them with their children, and these were the ones that Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised since they hadn't been circumcised on the way.

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Cross References

Exodus 3:17I have decided to take you away from the misery you're having in Egypt and bring you to the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.”

Numbers 14:29All of you will die in this desert, everyone who was registered in the census that counted those aged twenty or over, because you made complaints against me.

Numbers 14:35I, the Lord, have spoken! Just see if I won't do this to all these wicked Israelites who have worked together to oppose me! They will end their lives in the desert—they will die there.’”

Deuteronomy 2:7Remember that the Lord your God has blessed you in everything you've done. He has looked after you during your journey through this large desert. The Lord your God has been with you for these forty years, and you haven't lacked anything.

Deuteronomy 8:4During these forty years your clothing didn't wear out and your feet didn't swell up.

Joshua 24:7Your forefathers called out to the Lord for help, and he placed darkness between you and the Egyptians. Then he brought the sea back over them and they drowned. You saw what I did with your own eyes in Egypt. Then you lived for many years in the wilderness.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 5:2-10

The Circumcision of the Israelites. ( b. c. 1451.) 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. 2 At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again… Read the whole commentary →

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