约书亚记 5:3

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

約書亞就製造了火石刀，在包皮山那裡給以色列人行了割禮。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
约 书 亚 就 制 造 了 火 石 刀 ， 在 除 皮 山 那 里 给 以 色 列 人 行 割 礼 。

Contextual Overview

¹ All the kings of the Amorites west of the Jordan and the Canaanite kings living by the Mediterranean Sea heard that the Lord dried up the Jordan River until the Israelites had crossed it. After that they were scared and too afraid to face the Israelites. ² At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make knives from flint stones and circumcise the Israelites." ³ So Joshua made knives from flint stones and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth. ⁴ This is why Joshua circumcised the men: After the Israelites left Egypt, all the men old enough to serve in the army died in the desert on the way out of Egypt. ⁵ The men who had come out of Egypt had been circumcised, but none of those who were born in the desert on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised. ⁶ The Israelites had moved about in the desert for forty years. During that time all the fighting men who had left Egypt had died because they had not obeyed the Lord . So the Lord swore they would not see the land he had promised their ancestors to give them, a fertile land. ⁷ Their sons took their places. But none of the sons born on the trip from Egypt had been circumcised, so Joshua circumcised them. ⁸ After all the Israelites had been circumcised, they stayed in camp until they were healed. ⁹ Then the Lord said to Joshua, "As slaves in Egypt you were ashamed, but today I have removed that shame." So Joshua named that place Gilgal, which it is still named today.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Joshua: Genesis 17:23-27, Matthew 16:24

the hill of the foreskins: or, Gibeah haaraloth

Reciprocal: Genesis 17:11 - the flesh Exodus 4:25 - a sharp stone 1 Samuel 18:25 - foreskins

Cross-References

Genesis 4:25
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."

Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and on that day he blessed them and named them human beings.

Genesis 5:3
When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of another son in his likeness and image, and Adam named him Seth.

Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.

Genesis 5:16
After Jared was born, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.

Job 14:4
No one can bring something clean from something dirty.

Job 25:4
So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.

Psalms 51:5
I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.

Luke 1:35
The angel said to Mary, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you. For this reason the baby will be holy and will be called the Son of God.

John 3:6
Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the Spirit.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel,.... Not that Joshua circumcised them himself, any more than he made the knives himself, but he ordered both to be done, and took care that they were done. And as any that had skill might make the knives, so might any circumcise; circumcision was not restrained to any order of men, not to the priests and Levites, but any might perform it; so that though the number to be circumcised was great, it might soon be finished: and this was done

at the hill of the foreskins; as the place was afterward called from hence; these being heaped up one upon another, made a hill of them, as the Jews say y, being covered with dust. This circumcision performed by Joshua, or his orders, was typical of the spiritual circumcision without hands, which those that believe in Jesus, the antitype of Joshua, partake of.

y Pirke Eliezer, ut supra. (c. 29.) Jarchi in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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.)