TSK - JOSHUA 5

       1 The Canaanites are afraid
      2-9 Joshua renews circumcision
    10-11 The passover is kept at Gilgal
       12 manna ceases
    13-15 An angel appears to Joshua


VERSE 1
-    all the kings
   * Jos 12:9-24; 24:15 Ge 10:15-19; 15:18-21; 48:22 Jer 11:23 2Sa 21:2
   * Eze 16:3 Am 2:9
-    Canaanites
   * Jos 17:12,18 Ge 12:6 Ex 23:28 Jud 1:1; 4:2 Ezr 9:1 Ps 135:11
-    which were by
   * Nu 13:29 Jud 3:3 Zep 2:4-6
-    heard
   * Jos 2:9-11 Ex 15:14,15 Ps 48:4-6 Re 18:10
-    neither was
   * 1Sa 25:37 1Ki 10:5 Isa 13:6-8 Eze 21:7 Da 5:6


VERSE 2 
 -    sharp knife. or, knife 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


VERSE 3 
 -    Joshua
   * Ge 17:23-27 Mt 16:24
-    the hill of the foreskins. or. Gibeah haaraloth


VERSE 4 
 -    All the
   * Nu 14:22; 26:64,65 De 2:16 1Co 10:5 Heb 3:17-19


VERSE 5 
 -    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


VERSE 6 
 -    walked
   * Nu 14:32-34 De 1:3; 2:7,14; 8:4 Ps 95:10,11 Jer 2:2
-    sware that
   * Nu 14:23 Heb 3:11
-    a land
   * Ex 3:8,17 Eze 20:6,15 Joe 3:18


VERSE 7 
 -    their children
   * Nu 14:31 De 1:39


VERSE 8 
 -    when they, etc. [heb] when the people had made an end to be
     circumcised
-    till they were whole
   * Ge 34:25


VERSE 9 
 -    I rolled away
   * Jos 24:14 Ge 34:14 Le 24:14 1Sa 14:6; 17:26,36 Ps 119:39 Jer 9:25
   * Eze 20:7,8; 23:3,8 Eph 2:11,12
-    Gilgal:  That is, rolling
   * Jos 4:19


VERSE 10 
 -    kept the passover
   * Eze 12:3,6 Nu 9:1-5


VERSE 11 
 -    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


VERSE 12 
 -    the manna
   * Ex 16:35 Ne 9:20,21 Re 7:16,17
-    but they did eat
   * De 6:10,11 Pr 13:22 Isa 65:13,14 Joh 4:38


VERSE 13 
 -    he lifted
   * Ge 33:1,5 Da 8:3; 10:5
-    a man
   * Jos 6:2 Ge 18:2; 32:24-30 Ex 23:23 Jud 13:8,9,11,22 Da 10:5
   * Ho 12:3-5 Zec 1:8 Ac 1:10 Re 1:13
-    his sword
   * Nu 22:23 1Ch 21:16,17,27,30
-    Art thou for us
   * 1Ch 12:17,18


VERSE 14 
 -    but as captain. or, Prince
   * Ex 23:20-22 Isa 55:4 Da 10:13,21; 12:1 Heb 2:10 Re 12:7; 19:11-14
-    fell on his
   * Ge 17:3,17 Le 9:24 Nu 16:22,45 Mt 8:2 Lu 5:12 Ac 10:25,26
   * Re 19:10; 22:8,9
-    What saith
   * 1Sa 3:9,10 Ps 110:1 Mt 22:44 Lu 1:43; 20:42 Php 3:8


VERSE 15 
 -    Loose
   * Ex 3:5 Ac 7:32,33 2Pe 1:18
-    And 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 favored with this encouraging vision; by
     which he was shown 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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