February 15, 2024

“A Second Time"

Blessings folk!

Read the passage again…

Jos 5:2-7
At that time the LORD said to Joshua,
“Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time.”

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.[fn]

And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised them:
all the males of the people who came out of Egypt,
all the men of war,
had died in the wilderness on the way after they had come out of Egypt.

Though all the people who came out had been circumcised,
yet all the people who were born on the way in the wilderness after they had come out of Egypt had not been circumcised.

For the people of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
until all the nation,
the men of war who came out of Egypt,
perished,
because they did not obey the voice of the LORD;
the LORD swore to them that he would not let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to give to us,
a land flowing with milk and honey.

So it was their children,
whom he raised up in their place,
that Joshua circumcised.
For they were uncircumcised,
because they had not been circumcised on the way.
ESV

“Circumcise the sons of Israel a second time”?

My initial reaction was “how do you do that”? LOL

The balance of the verses explain.

The second generation had not been circumcised, those born on the way to the Land.

The first generation that had been delivered from Egypt had been circumcised, but they had all died in the wilderness.
We learn why they died.
They did not obey the voice of the Lord.
Therefore, the Lord swore that the would not see the land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

God raised up the next generation “in their place”.
These are those who Joshua circumcised.

Why circumcision?
We will look at that tomorrow…

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