Joshua 5:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Bible Comments

All that came out of Egypt that were males died This is to be restrained to such as were then above twenty years old, and such as were guilty of the rebellion mentioned Numbers 14., as it is expressed Joshua 5:6.

Joshua 5:4

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.