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    Joshua 5

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    The manna ends with almost administrative precision: Israel eats the produce of Canaan, and the next day the wilderness provision simply stops.

    A pause at the edge of the landvv. 1–9

    The kings west of the Jordan hear what happened to the river and lose heart. Then, at precisely this alarming moment for everyone nearby, the whole nation is circumcised with flint knives and remains in camp until healed. The reason reaches back through the wilderness: the men who came out of Egypt had died, and their sons had not been circumcised along the way. At Gilgal, the LORD gives the pause its name, saying that Egypt’s reproach has been rolled away.

    Passover, then no more mannavv. 10–12

    At Gilgal, on the plains of Jericho, Israel keeps the Passover. The following day brings unleavened bread and roasted grain from the land itself. Then the manna ceases—not after a speech, nor after a gradual transition, but the day after they eat the crops of Canaan. The wilderness menu has been quietly discontinued.

    The answer outside the alternativesvv. 13–15

    Near Jericho, Joshua sees a man with a drawn sword and asks the sensible military question: is he for Israel or for its enemies? The answer is neither. The figure has come as Commander of the LORD’s army, which rearranges the whole encounter; Joshua falls facedown, asks what his Lord has to say, and is told to remove his sandals. The ground, rather than the allegiance, gets the final word.

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    1. Josh 5:1Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

    2. Josh 5:2At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”

    3. Josh 5:3So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.

    4. Josh 5:4Now 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.

    5. Josh 5:5Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.

    6. Josh 5:6For 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.

    7. Josh 5:7And He raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones Joshua circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

    8. Josh 5:8And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.

    9. Josh 5:9Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.

    10. Josh 5:10On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

    11. Josh 5:11The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.

    12. Josh 5:12And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.

    13. Josh 5:13Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

    14. Josh 5:14“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”

    15. Josh 5:15The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

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    • 6Numbers 14:23not one will ever see the land that I swore to give their fathers. None of those who have treated Me with contempt will see it.
    • 13Numbers 22:23When the donkey saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand, she turned off the path and went into a field. So Balaam beat her to return her to the path.
    • 13Genesis 18:2And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and bowed low to the ground.
    • 6Deuteronomy 2:14The time we spent traveling from Kadesh-barnea until we crossed over the Brook of Zered was thirty-eight years, until that entire generation of fighting men had perished from the camp, as the LORD had sworn to them.
    • 12Exodus 16:35The Israelites ate manna forty years, until they came to a land where they could settle; they ate manna until they reached the border of Canaan.
    • 14Isaiah 55:4Behold, I have made him a witness to the nations, a leader and commander of the peoples.
    • 15Exodus 3:5“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
    • 13Numbers 22:31Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam bowed low and fell facedown.
    • 15Acts 7:32–33‘I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.’ Moses trembled with fear and did not dare to look.
    • 9Joshua 4:19On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
    • 91 Samuel 17:26David asked the men who were standing with him, “What will be done for the man who kills this Philistine and removes this disgrace from Israel? Just who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?”
    • 14Genesis 17:3Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
    • 2Deuteronomy 10:16Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
    • 2Deuteronomy 30:6The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, and you will love Him with all your heart and with all your soul, so that you may live.
    • 6Hebrews 3:11So I swore on oath in My anger, ‘They shall never enter My rest.’”
    • 14Exodus 23:20–22Behold, I am sending an angel before you to protect you along the way and to bring you to the place I have prepared.

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