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New Century Version

Joshua 5:3

So Joshua made knives from flint stones and circumcised the Israelites 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 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 Life Bible
So Joshua made knives of hard stone. Then he had the sons of Israel go through this religious act 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 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

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
Adam had sexual relations with his wife Eve again, and she gave birth to a son. She named him Seth and said, "God has given me another child. He will take the place of Abel, who was killed by Cain."
Genesis 5:2
He created them male and female, and on that day he blessed them and named them human beings.
Genesis 5:3
When Adam was 130 years old, he became the father of another son in his likeness and image, and Adam named him Seth.
Genesis 5:14
So Kenan lived a total of 910 years, and then he died.
Genesis 5:16
After Jared was born, Mahalalel lived 830 years and had other sons and daughters.
Job 14:4
No one can bring something clean from something dirty.
Job 25:4
So no one can be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a woman can be pure.
Psalms 51:5
I was brought into this world in sin. In sin my mother gave birth to me.
Luke 1:35
The angel said to Mary, "The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will cover you. For this reason the baby will be holy and will be called the Son of God.
John 3:6
Human life comes from human parents, but spiritual life comes from the 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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