Jos 4:19-24, 5:2-9, 10:43, 1Sa 7:16, Hos 4:15, 12:11, Amo 4:4, 5:5, Mic 6:5 | TSK | STEP | first month. Gilgal.That is, the place afterwards called Gilgal; for it is so called here by anticipation. It was about ten furlongs east from Jericho, and fifty west from the Jordan. See Josephus and Calmet.

Joshua 4:19-24

first month.

Gilgal.That is, the place afterwards called Gilgal; for it is so called here by anticipation. It was about ten furlongs east from Jericho, and fifty west from the Jordan. See Josephus and Calmet.

5:9; 10:6,43; 15:7; 1Sa 11:14,15; 15:33; Am 4:4; 5:5; Mic 6:5

3,8

When your.

6; Ps 105:2-5; 145:4-7

in time to come. Heb. to-morrow.

3:17; Ex 14:29; 15:19; Ps 66:5,6; Isa 11:15,16; 44:27; 51:10

Re 16:12

as the Lord.The parents must take that occasion to tell their children of the drying up of the Red Sea forty years before: "As the Lord your God did to the Red Sea." It greatly magnifies later mercies to compare them with those before enjoyed; for, by making the comparison, it appears that God is the same yesterday, to-day, and forever. Later blessings should also bring to remembrance former mercies, and revive thankfulness for them.

which he dried.

Ex 14:21; Ne 9:11; Ps 77:16-19; 78:13; Isa 43:16; 63:12-14

all the people.

Ex 9:16; De 28:10; 1Sa 17:46; 1Ki 8:42,43; 2Ki 5:15; 19:19

Ps 106:8; Da 3:26-29; 4:34,35; 6:26,27

that it is.

Ex 15:16; 1Ch 29:12; Ps 89:13

ye might.

Ex 14:31; 20:20; De 6:2; Ps 76:6-8; 89:7; Jer 10:6,7; 32:40

for ever. Heb. all days.

Joshua 5:2-9

sharp knives. or, knives of flints.Before the use of iron was common, all the nations of the earth had their edge tools made of stones, flints, etc. Our ancestors had their arrows and spearheads made of flint; which are frequently turned up by the plough. And even when iron became more common, stone knives seem to have been preferred for making incisions in the human body. The Egyptians used such to open the bodies for embalming; and the tribe of Alnajab in Ethiopia, who follow the Mosaic institution, perform the rite of circumcision, according to Ludolf, {cultris lapidibus,} with knives made of stone.

circumcise.

Ge 17:10-14; De 10:16; 30:6; Ro 2:29; 4:11; Col 2:11

Joshua.

Ge 17:23-27; Mt 16:24

the hill of the foreskins. or, Gibeah haaraloth.

All the.

Nu 14:22; 26:64,65; De 2:16; 1Co 10:5; Heb 3:17-19

they had not.

De 12:8,9; Ho 6:6,7; Mt 12:7; Ro 2:26; 1Co 7:19; Ga 5:6; 6:15

walked.

Nu 14:32-34; De 1:3; 2:7,14; 8:4; Ps 95:10,11; Jer 2:2

sware that.

Nu 14:23; Heb 3:11

a land.

Ex 3:8,17; Eze 20:6,15; Joe 3:18

their children.

Nu 14:31; De 1:39

when they, etc. Heb. when the people had made an end to becircumcised. till they were whole.

Ge 34:25

I rolled away.

24:14; Ge 34:14; Le 24:14; 1Sa 14:6; 17:26,36; Ps 119:39; Jer 9:25

Eze 20:7,8; 23:3,8; Eph 2:11,12

Gilgal.That is, rolling.

4:19

Joshua 10:43

unto the camp.

15; 4:19; 1Sa 11:14

1 Samuel 7:16

he went.When he was at Bethel, the tribe of Ephraim and all the northern parts of the country could attend him; when at Gilgal, the tribe of Benjamin and those beyond Jordan could have easy access to him; and when at Mizpeh, he was within the reach of Judah, Simeon, and Gad: but at Ramah was the place of his ordinary abode; and there he held his court, for there he judged Israel: and as it is probable that Shiloh was destroyed, it is said (ver. 17) that there, i.e., at Ramah, "he built an altar to the Lord."

in circuit. Heb. and he circuited.

Jud 5:10; 10:4; 12:14; Ps 75:2; 82:3,4

Hosea 4:15

play.

12; Jer 3:6-10; Eze 23:4-8

yet.

11:12; 2Ki 17:18,19; Jer 3:10,11; Lu 12:47,48; Eph 5:11

Gilgal.

9:15; 12:11; Am 4:4; 5:5

Beth-aven.

5:8; 10:5,8; 1Ki 12:28,29

nor.

Isa 48:1; Jer 5:2; Eze 20:39; Am 6:10; 8:14; Zep 1:5,6

Hosea 12:11

iniquity.

6:8; 1Ki 17:1

surely.

Jer 10:8,15; Jon 2:8

they sacrifice.

4:15; 9:15; Am 4:4; 5:5

their altars.

8:11; 10:1; 2Ki 17:9-11; Jer 2:20,28

Amos 4:4

Come.A bitter irony and sarcasm, addressed to the idolatrous Israelites.

3:14; Ec 11:9; Eze 20:39; Joe 3:9-12; Mt 23:32; 26:45; Mr 14:41

at Gilgal

5:5; Ho 4:15; 9:15; 12:11

and bring.

Nu 28:3,4

and your.

De 14:28,29; 26:12

three years. Heb. three years of days.

Amos 5:5

seek.

4:4; Ho 4:15; 9:15; 10:14,15; 12:11

Beer-sheba.

8:14; Ge 21:33

Gilgal.There is a paronomasia here, both on the letters and words: {hag-gilgal galoh yigleh oovaith el yiheyeh leäwen,} "Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth-el (the house of God) shall come to nought," or Aven, i.e., Beth-aven, the house of iniquity.

and Beth-el.

7:17; Le 26:30-32; De 28:41; Ho 4:15; 10:8,15

come.

Job 8:22; Ps 33:10; Isa 8:10; 29:20; 1Co 1:28; 2:6; Re 18:17

Micah 6:5

remember.

De 8:2,18; 9:7; 16:3; Ps 103:1,2; 111:4; Eph 2:11

Balak.

Nu 22:1-25:18; 31:16; De 23:4,5; Jos 24:9,10; Re 2:14

Balaam.

Nu 31:8; 2Pe 2:15; Jude 1:11

Shittim.

Nu 22:41; 23:13,14,27; 25:1; 33:49; Jos 4:19; 5:9,10; 10:42,43

know.

Jud 5:11; *marg:

Ps 36:10; 71:15,16,19; 143:11; Ro 3:25,26; 1Jo 1:9