Joshua 5:2
At that time YHWH said to Joshua, “Make knives of flint for yourself, and return, circumcise the sons of Israel a second time”;
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Genesis 17:10this [is] My covenant which you keep between Me and you, and your seed after you: every male of you [is] to be circumcised;
Deuteronomy 10:16And you have circumcised the foreskin of your heart, and you do not harden your neck anymore.
Romans 2:29but a Jew [is] he who is [so] inwardly, and circumcision [is] of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.
Colossians 2:11in whom you also were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of sins of the flesh by the circumcision of the Christ,
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 →