Joshua 5:6 meaning and explanation
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.
Joshua 5:6, Berean Standard Bible
Explanation preview
The narrator pauses to explain why circumcision was needed at Gilgal. The generation that left Egypt had refused to trust the LORD at Kadesh, and so God vowed that none of that fighting generation would enter the land promised to the patriarchs.
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