约书亚记 5:9

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

耶和華對約書亞說：“我今日把埃及的恥辱從你們身上輥去了。”因此，那地方名叫吉甲（“吉甲”意即“輥”），直到今日。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
耶 和 华 对 约 书 亚 说 ： 我 今 日 将 埃 及 的 羞 辱 从 你 们 身 上 辊 去 了 。 因 此 ， 那 地 方 名 叫 吉 甲 （ 吉 甲 就 是 辊 的 意 思 ） ， 直 到 今 日 。

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

I rolled away: Joshua 24:14, Genesis 34:14, Leviticus 24:14, 1 Samuel 14:6, 1 Samuel 17:26, 1 Samuel 17:36, Psalms 119:39, Jeremiah 9:25, Ezekiel 20:7, Ezekiel 20:8, Ezekiel 23:3, Ezekiel 23:8, Ephesians 2:11, Ephesians 2:12

Gilgal: That is, rolling. Joshua 4:19

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 11:30 - Gilgal Joshua 12:23 - Gilgal Joshua 15:7 - Gilgal 1 Samuel 13:4 - to Gilgal 2 Samuel 19:15 - Gilgal 2 Kings 2:1 - Gilgal Nehemiah 12:29 - the house Micah 6:5 - Shittim

Cross-References

1 Chronicles 1:2
Kenan was the father of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the father of Jared. Jared was the father of Enoch.

Luke 3:37
Lamech was the son of Methuselah. Methuselah was the son of Enoch. Enoch was the son of Jared. Jared was the son of Mahalalel. Mahalalel was the son of Kenan.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the Lord said unto Joshua,.... Out of the tabernacle:

this day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you; either the reproach of being reckoned office same religion with the Egyptians, they now having observed the command of the Lord, and thereby declared themselves to be his servants and worshippers, which sense Ben Gersom mentions; or else the reproach with which the Egyptians reproached them, that they were brought out from them into the wilderness for evil, to be destroyed there, they now being safely arrived in the land of Canaan; which tense he seems to approve of, and so Abarbinel: or rather by it is meant the reproach of being bondmen, and slaves, as they were in Egypt, having now entered upon their inheritance, they as free men, the sons of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, were heirs unto; and perhaps it was this sense of the phrase led Josephus c to give a wrong interpretation of the word "Gilgal", which he says signifies "liberty": and adds,

"for, having passed the river, they knew they were free from the Egyptians, and from troubles in the wilderness;''

though the more commonly received sense is, that this reproach is to be understood of uncircumcision, which was the reproach of the Egyptians, they at this time not using circumcision they afterwards did, when some of the nations thereabout used it, who descended, from Abraham, as the Midianites, Ishmaelites, Arabians, and Edomites:

wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day; which signifies "rolling" d; so that when it is met with before, it is so called by anticipation.

c Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 11. d A גלל "volvit, devolvit", Buxtorf.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The reproach of Egypt - i. e. “reproach proceeding from Egypt.” The expression probably refers to taunts actually uttered by the Egyptians against Israel, because of their long wanderings in the desert and failures to acquire a settlement in Canaan (compare Exodus 32:12; Numbers 14:13-16; Deuteronomy 9:28; Deuteronomy 32:27). These reproaches were now to end, for they had actually entered Canaan, and the restoration of the covenant was a pledge from God to accomplish what was begun for them.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 5:9. The reproach of Egypt — Their being uncircumcised made them like the uncircumcised Egyptians; and the Hebrews ever considered all those who were uncircumcised as being in a state of the grossest impurity. Being now circumcised, the reproach of uncircumcision was rolled away. This is another proof that the Israelites did not receive circumcision from the Egyptians; for they could not have considered those in a state of abomination, from whom they received that rite by which they conceived themselves to be made pure. The Israelites had this rite from Abraham; and Abraham had it from the express order of God himself. See Genesis 17:10, and the note there.

The place is called Gilgal — A rolling away or rolling off. Joshua 4:19, where the word is largely explained.