Joshua 5
1 The Canaanites are afraid.2 Joshua renews circumcision.10 The passover is kept at Gilgal12 They eat the corn of the land and the manna ceases.13 An angel appears to Joshua. all the kings.12:9-24; 24:15; Ge 10:15-19; 15:18-21; 48:22; Jud 11:23; 2Sa 21:2Eze 16:3; Am 2:9Canaanites.17:12,18; Ge 12:6; Ex 23:28; Jud 1:1; 4:2; Ezr 9:1; Ps 135:11which were by.Nu 13:29; Jud 3:3; Zep 2:4-6heard.2:9-11; Ex 15:14,15; Ps 48:4-6; Re 18:10neither was.1Sa 25:37; 1Ki 10:5; Isa 13:6-8; Eze 21:7; Da 5:6 sharp knives. or, knives of flints.Before the use of iron was common, all the nations of the earth had their edge tools made of stones, flints, etc. Our ancestors had their arrows and spearheads made of flint; which are frequently turned up by the plough. And even when iron became more common, stone knives seem to have been preferred for making incisions in the human body. The Egyptians used such to open the bodies for embalming; and the tribe of Alnajab in Ethiopia, who follow the Mosaic institution, perform the rite of circumcision, according to Ludolf, {cultris lapidibus,} with knives made of stone. circumcise.Ge 17:10-14; De 10:16; 30:6; Ro 2:29; 4:11; Col 2:11 Joshua.Ge 17:23-27; Mt 16:24the hill of the foreskins. or, Gibeah haaraloth. All the.Nu 14:22; 26:64,65; De 2:16; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:17-19 they had not.De 12:8,9; Ho 6:6,7; Mt 12:7; Ro 2:26; 1Co 7:19; Ga 5:6; 6:15 walked.Nu 14:32-34; De 1:3; 2:7,14; 8:4; Ps 95:10,11; Jer 2:2sware that.Nu 14:23; Heb 3:11a land.Ex 3:8,17; Eze 20:6,15; Joe 3:18 their children.Nu 14:31; De 1:39 when they, etc. Heb. when the people had made an end to becircumcised. till they were whole. Ge 34:25 I rolled away.24:14; Ge 34:14; Le 24:14; 1Sa 14:6; 17:26,36; Ps 119:39; Jer 9:25Eze 20:7,8; 23:3,8; Eph 2:11,12Gilgal.That is, rolling. 4:19 kept the passover.Eze 12:3,6,7-16; Nu 9:1-5 old corn.The people would find abundance of old corn in the deserted granaries of the affrighted inhabitants: and the barley harvest being ripe, after offering the sheaf of first-fruits, they ate also new parched corn; and thus the manna being no longer necessary, ceased, after having been sent them regularly for almost forty years. To Christians the manna for their souls shall never fail, till they arrive at the Canaan above, to feast on its rich and inexhaustible provisions. unleavened cakes.Ex 12:18-20; 13:6,7; Le 23:6,14 the manna.Ex 16:35; Ne 9:20,21; Re 7:16,17but they did eat.De 6:10,11; Pr 13:22; Isa 65:13,14; Joh 4:38 he lifted.Ge 33:1,5; Da 8:3; 10:5a man.6:2; Ge 18:2; 32:24-30; Ex 23:23; Jud 13:8,9,11,22; Da 10:5Ho 12:3-5; Zec 1:8; Ac 1:10; Re 1:13his sword.Nu 22:23; 1Ch 21:16,17,27,30Art thou for us.1Ch 12:17,18 but as captain. or, Prince.Ex 23:20-22; Isa 55:4; Da 10:13,21; 12:1; Heb 2:10; Re 12:7Re 19:11-14fell on his.Ge 17:3,17; Le 9:24; Nu 16:22,45; Mt 8:2; Lu 5:12; Ac 10:25,26Re 19:10; 22:8,9What saith.1Sa 3:9,10; Isa 6:8; Ac 9:6my lord.Ex 4:10,13; Ps 110:1; Mt 22:44; Lu 1:43; 20:42; Joh 20:28; Php 3:8 Loose.Ex 3:5; Ac 7:32,33; 2Pe 1:18And Joshua.Many persons have been puzzled to know what was intended by this extraordinary appearance of the angel to Joshua, because they supposed that the whole business ends with the chapter; whereas it is continued in the succeeding one, the first verse of which is a mere parenthesis, simply relating to the state of Jericho at the time when Joshua was favoured with this encouraging vision; by which he was shewn that their help came from God alone, and that it was not by human might or power, but by the Lord of hosts they were to obtain the victory.
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