2At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.
Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.
Then Zipporah took a sharp stone, and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, Surely a bloody husband art thou to me.
And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)A vast show, no doubt, the numerous camp of Israel made in the plains of Jericho, where now they had pitched their tents. Who can count the dust of Jacob ? That which had long been the church in the wilderness has now come up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved, and looks forth as the morning, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, and terrible as an army with banners . How terrible she was…
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