Joshua 5:6 (WEB)
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness until all the nation, even the men of war who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn’t listen to the LORD’s voice. The LORD swore to them that he wouldn’t let them see the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.
Fathers and councils · 2
Tertullian
“…Moses (that is, not through the Law’s discipline), but through Joshua (that is, through the new law’s grace), after our circumcision with “a knife of rock” (that is, with Christ’s precepts, for Christ is in many ways and figures predicted as a rock); therefore the man who was being prepared to act as images of…” — editor's note: See Josh. v. 2–9, especially in LXX. Comp. the margin in the Eng. ver. in ver. 2, “flint knives,” and Wordsworth in loc., who refers to Ex. iv. 25, for which…
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John Damascene
“…stone from the sharp rock, and assemble and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time; and a little later: For the children of Israel walked forty and twoyears in the wilderness of Battaris, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were uncircumcised, because they obeyed not the voice of…” — editor's note: Ibid. 6.
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Cross-references · 6
Parallel passages
Joshua 5:6 and Jeremiah 32:22 share the same wording (11 words).
Deuteronomy 2:14 and Joshua 5:6 share the same wording (13 words).
Deuteronomy 11:9 and Joshua 5:6 share the same wording (16 words).
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Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.
Cited together in An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith IV.25.