Joshua 5:4 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Bible Comments

Out of Egypt — This is to be restrained to such as were then above twenty years old, and such as were guilty of that rebellion, Numbers 14:1-25, as it is expressed below, 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.