Joshua 5:2

Colossians 2:11; Deuteronomy 10:16; Deuteronomy 30:6; Genesis 17:10-14; Romans 2:29; Romans 4:11

Related Commentaries of Joshua 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Make thee sharp knives - Render rather as marg., and compare marginal reference and note. Knives of flint or stone were in fact used for circumci...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, (b) and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. (b) For now they ha...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua Circumcises the Israelites. Here we have an interesting but quite unhistorical account of the institution of circumcision. Circumcision (pp. 8...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

said. See note on Joshua 3:7 . again . the second time. Not repeated as an act on the person, but on the nation on. second occasion (compare f...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

2. At that time the Lord said, etc It seems very strange and almost monstrous, that circumcision had so long been laid aside, especially as...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. Make thee sharp knives -...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 2. At that time the Lord said unto Joshua — This was the morning after the passage, the 11th day of the first month, as the learned Usher a...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. At that time - o...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Renewal Of Circumcision And Celebration Of The Passover The two incidents recorded in Joshua 5:2-12 ;—Circumcision and the Passover—represent the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Sharp knives] RV 'knives of flint.' LXX curiously relates (in an addition to Joshua 24:30 ) that these knives were buried with Joshua in his tomb....
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(20 — 5:9) It would seem that these verses all belong to one section. The use of the first person in Joshua 5:1 , “until we were passed over,” is...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

THE CIRCUMCISION OF ISRAEL BY JOSHUA ( Joshua 5:2-9 ). (2) Make thee sharp knives. — Authorities are divided between the rendering “sharp knives...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER X. CIRCUMCISION AND PASSOVER- MANNA AND CORN. Joshua 5:1-12 . THE first two facts recorded in this chapter seem to be closely connected...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Renewing the Covenant with God Joshua 5:1-12 Evidently the people of Canaan realized that they were entering into conflict with God Almighty. T...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The effect on the people of this crossing of the Jordan is revealed in the words, "Their heart melted, neither was there any spirit in them any more....
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

As circumcision was a sign or seal of the everlasting covenant God made with Abraham, and evidently referred to Him in whom the law was to be complet...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

At that time the Lord said unto Joshua ,.... When the people had passed over Jordan, and had pitched in Gilgal, and Joshua had set up the stones the...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time. Ver. 2. Make thee sha...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

At that time Namely, the morning after the passage, on the eleventh day of the first month, as Archbishop Usher and others have very probably conje...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

CIRCUMCISION IN GILGAL (vs.1-9) The miraculous crossing of the Jordan awakened great fear in the hearts of the Canaanitish people, so that their...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Circumcision of the Israelites. B. C. 1451....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

At that time; as soon as ever they were come to Gilgal, which was on the tenth day; and so this might be executed the next, or the eleventh day, an...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘At that time YHWH said to Joshua, “Make yourself knives of flint and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.” ' This did not mean...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 5:2 . Sharp knives] Marg. “knives of flints” (cf. Exodus 4:25 ). The reason for using stone knives may have been more on...
Scofield Reference Notes

circumcision Circumcision is the "sign" of the Abrahamic Covenant ( Genesis 17:7-14 ); ( Romans 4:11 ). "The reproach of Egypt" was that, duri...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 5:1 . The Amorites on the side of Jordan westward. This agrees with Numbers 13:29 . The Amorites dwell in the mountains. Joshua 5:2 . M...
The Biblical Illustrator

Make thee sharp knives and circumcise. The circumcising at Gilgal Even those comparatively unenlightened people must have realised that there w...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THE CIRCUMCISION .— Joshua 5:1 Which were on the side of Jordan westward. A large portion of the territory of the Amorites...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Circumcision of the People
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, literally, knives of stone, made with a very sharp cutting edge, used extensively at...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

At that time — As soon as ever they were come to Gilgal, which was on the tenth day; and so this might be executed the eleventh day, and that in th...

² At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharpa knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 5:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 5:2