Joshua 5:3 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The hill of the foreskins - i. e. the hill where the foreskins, the emblem of all worldly and carnal affections, were buried. (Compare Colossians 2:11-13; Colossians 3:1-6.)

Joshua 5:3

3 And Joshua made him sharpb knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.