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Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made knives of hard stone. Then he had the sons of Israel go through this religious act at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gilgal;   Revivals;   Thompson Chain Reference - Circumcision;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Gilgal;   Joshua the son of nun;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Gibeah-Haaraloth;   Knife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Bochim;   Gilgal;   Joshua;   Stones;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Crimes and Punishments;   Flint;   Gibeath-Haaraloth;   Hill of the Foreskins;   Joshua, the Book of;   Knife;   Vessels and Utensils;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Circumcision;   Gibeath;   Jericho;   Mining and Metals;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Sword (2);   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Circumcision;   Gilgal;   Stones;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Knife;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Gibeah;   Journeyings of israel from egypt to canaan;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Gil'gal;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Gilgal;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Circumcision;   Foreskin;   Gibeath (1);   Hill;   Joshua, Book of;   Knife;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Circumcision;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Hebrew Names Version
Yehoshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Yisra'el at the hill of `Aralot.
King James Version
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Lexham English Bible
So Joshua made knives of flint, and he circumcised the Israelites at the hill of the foreskins.
English Standard Version
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
New Century Version
So Joshua made knives from flint stones and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath Haaraloth.
New English Translation
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.
Amplified Bible
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then Ioshua made him sharpe kniues & circumcised the sonnes of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Contemporary English Version
Joshua made the knives, then circumcised those men and boys at Haaraloth Hill.
Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua made himself knives of flint and circumcised the people of Isra'el at Giv‘at-Ha‘Aralot [the hill of foreskins].
Darby Translation
And Joshua made him stone-knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of Araloth.
Easy-to-Read Version
So Joshua made knives from flint rocks and circumcised the men of Israel at Gibeath Haaraloth.
George Lamsa Translation
So Joshua made a flint knife for himself, and circumcised the children of Israel the second time at the Hill of the Uncircumcised.
Good News Translation
So Joshua did as the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the Israelites at a place called Circumcision Hill.
Literal Translation
And Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then Iosua made him knyues of stone, and circumcysed the childre of Israel vpon the toppe of the foreßkynnes.
American Standard Version
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Bible in Basic English
So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of Israel circumcision at Gibeath-ha-araloth.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And Iosuah made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskinnes.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at Gibeath-ha-araloth.
King James Version (1611)
And Ioshua made him sharpe kniues, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskinnes.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the children of Israel at the place called the "Hill of Foreskins."
English Revised Version
And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Berean Standard Bible
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Josue dide tho thingis whiche the Lord comaundide, and he circumside the sones of Israel in the `hil of prepucies.
Young's Literal Translation
and Joshua maketh for him knives of flint, and circumciseth the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.
Update Bible Version
And Joshua made for himself knives of flint, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Webster's Bible Translation
And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
World English Bible
Joshua made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
New King James Version
So Joshua made flint knives for himself, and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. [fn]
New Living Translation
So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the entire male population of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
New Revised Standard
So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the Israelites at Gibeath-haaraloth.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So Joshua made him knives of flint, - and circumcised the sons of Israel, at the Hill of Foreskins.
Douay-Rheims Bible
He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.
Revised Standard Version
So Joshua made flint knives, and circumcised the people of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua made himself flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

Contextual Overview

1 All the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings by the sea heard how the Lord had dried up the water of the Jordan for the people of Israel until they had crossed. And their hearts became weak. There was no spirit in them any more because of the people of Israel. 2 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Make knives for yourselves out of hard stone. And cut the piece of skin from the sex part of the sons of Israel as before." 3 So Joshua made knives of hard stone. Then he had the sons of Israel go through this religious act at Gibeath-haaraloth. 4 This is the reason why Joshua had them go through this religious act. All the males who had come out of Egypt, all the soldiers, had died in the desert on the way from Egypt. 5 All the people who came out went through this religious act. But all the people who were born in the desert on the way from Egypt had not gone through this religious act. 6 For the people of Israel walked forty years in the desert, until all the men of war who came out of Egypt died, because they did not listen to the voice of the Lord. The Lord had promised them that He would not let them see the land He had promised to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 7 So Joshua went through the religious act on their children, whom the Lord raised up in their place. For they had not gone through this religious act along the way. 8 When the whole nation had gone through this religious act, they stayed in their places among the tents until they were healed. 9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away from you the shame of Egypt." So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this day.

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
And Adam lay with his wife again, and she gave birth to a son and gave him the name Seth. For she said, "God has let me have another son in the place of Abel, for Cain killed him."
Genesis 5:2
He made them male and female, and brought good to them. And He gave them the name Man when they were made.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam had lived 130 years, he gave birth to a son in his own likeness. And he gave him the name Seth.
Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived 910 years, and he died.
Genesis 5:16
Mahalalel lived 830 years after the birth of Jared. He had other sons and daughters.
Job 14:4
Who can make clean what is unclean? No one!
Job 25:4
How then can a man be right and good before God? How can he who is born of woman be clean?
Psalms 51:5
See, I was born in sin and was in sin from my very beginning.
Luke 1:35
The angel said to her, "The Holy Spirit will come on you. The power of the Most High will cover you. The holy Child you give birth to will be called the Son of God.
John 3:6
Whatever is born of the flesh is flesh. Whatever is born of the Spirit is 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.)


 
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