Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised. Cross References Joshua 5:4 Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt--all the men of war--had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt. Joshua 5:6 For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation's men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. Treasury of Scripture Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised. they had not Deuteronomy 12:8,9 Hosea 6:6,7 Matthew 12:7 |